I asked for a copy of the social graph so I could build exactly the kind of service provided by trst.me. Joseph Kelly told me I was "on to something", but they never gave me a copy of the data.
I really hope they had every intention of releasing this service before my correspondence with them. But after seeing this, the tin foil hatter in me can't help but get the nagging sensation that maybe I shouldn't have made public my intention and just gone ahead with my own crawl of twitter. Oh well, there goes my research project.
I can verify that Infochimps has had this in the pipeline for well over a year. I met with Flip Kromer a long while ago and he was excited about it then.
Sorry to break it to you, but computing page rank for Twitter followers really isn't that much of a revolutionary idea. It is, after all, one of the most successful measurements for rank on social graphs. Ranking apps for Twitter are popular, so you only have to put 2 and 2 together to hit upon the idea.
I have pondered it myself, but alas, didn't act on it. I am very sure I am not the only one.
Google already searches Twitter, too, they are bound to use some form of page rank as well.
The color data is very interesting. My Twitter app uses the color from users profiles to stylize their individual tweets to their followers. It adds a lot of personality and breaks up the black/white monotony.
[+] [-] m0th87|16 years ago|reply
I asked for a copy of the social graph so I could build exactly the kind of service provided by trst.me. Joseph Kelly told me I was "on to something", but they never gave me a copy of the data.
I really hope they had every intention of releasing this service before my correspondence with them. But after seeing this, the tin foil hatter in me can't help but get the nagging sensation that maybe I shouldn't have made public my intention and just gone ahead with my own crawl of twitter. Oh well, there goes my research project.
[+] [-] symptic|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Tichy|16 years ago|reply
I have pondered it myself, but alas, didn't act on it. I am very sure I am not the only one.
Google already searches Twitter, too, they are bound to use some form of page rank as well.
[+] [-] cwilson|16 years ago|reply
http://trst.me/
[+] [-] Jitle|16 years ago|reply
Feel free to give it a try - http://loritweet.com