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Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content

120 points| jacob-jackson | 5 years ago |same.energy

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hyperpape|5 years ago

I used my pinned tweet (https://twitter.com/hyperpape/status/1050402656181735426)

"Learning Perl6 is like being stuck in a small dark room with a bat that's flapping around wildly, and talking to the bat and slowly coming to understand what it is like to be a bat."

and the results are quite good: https://same.energy/?q=Learning+Perl6+is+like+being+stuck+in....

I wouldn't say they 100% have the same energy in every case, but I enjoyed reading them.

glial|5 years ago

Style aside, these results are way way better quality than the typical curated Twitter feed.

> BlueSpaceCanaryTwitter "malloc" comes from the Latin "mal", meaning "bad" or "evil", and the abbreviation "LOC", meaning "lines of code.”

hyperpape|5 years ago

Example of where it falls down. I took the top tweet on @danluu (https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1304093800474636288)

"I find it interesting how often the top Google results for basic questions are wrong.

For example, I googled "tire grip physics" (in an incognito window) to get an explanation of why wider tires give you better grip and the top 6 explanations are wrong or at least misleading."

The results are pretty weak. They're car stuff and/or "vaguely analytical" feeling. https://same.energy/?q=I+find+it+interesting+how+often+the+t...

searchableguy|5 years ago

Unless I am doing something wrong, searching for similar tweets to realdonaldtrump only results in his tweets.

https://same.energy/?q=The+Democrats+never+even+mentioned+th....

This could be used to de-anonymize people on twitter.

Edit: So I did a test for an old twitter account I don't have access to anymore. I was able to find it using my comments with few tries.

mellosouls|5 years ago

I would say the results in your example are terrific; they seem completely of the same style (at least the first few, I stopped reading after that).

Razengan|5 years ago

There was a Show HN called “Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone” [0]

As the number of users grows on every social platform, it becomes harder for new users to get noticed. I wish every service had a feature to filter for only new contributors.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23114103

gojomo|5 years ago

Interesting! As the creator, can you say anything about the algorithm(s) used to determine similarity?

FnControlOption|5 years ago

@billwurtz:

> richard simmons is plural. it's actually 2 guys, they are twins, each one is named richard simmon

@YABOYEZRAFITZ:

> can i send text messages using my typewriter? it doesn't give me any instructions in the owners manual

https://same.energy/?q=twitter.com%2Fbillwurtz

notRobot|5 years ago

Really cool! It'd help with the context of the tweet if the date on which it was posted was included too.

jfax|5 years ago

Immediately started punching in dril classics and am thoroughly impressed with the results. Well done.

nwsm|5 years ago

Lol I did the exact same thing. I'm also impressed with the results, although I'm also getting a lot of other dril tweets back. Don't know if I should attribute that to OP, a flaw in the app, or to dril's consistency. I'll choose to believe it's the last one.

kristopolous|5 years ago

these results are not terrible. relevant long tail results are hard. well done.

gitgud|5 years ago

> Searched 15,541,670 tweets in 0.35s

Isn't there millions of tweets posted everyday? This must be a minuscule fraction of all tweets....

Anyway, great project, had a lot of funny tweets

aurenh|5 years ago

played around with this. well done!