unchaotic's comments

My usage is similar but I follow about twice the number of people. To keep things manageable i.e. consume twitter in about 30 minutes/day, I wrote a small chrome extension to rearrange my feed (sort by likes/retweets, give different weights to users and sort the feed/list).

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackybird/ddlhmpom...

Crowded space. Quick google search of any of these keywords "ip address location api" , "ip lookup API" , "geolocation API by IP" etc. shows :

- https://db-ip.com/api - https://ipapi.co - https://freegeoip.net - ipinfodb.com - https://www.iplocation.net - http://neutrinoapi.com - http://www.ip2location.com - https://www.telize.com

and a few dozen more. I wonder if collectively they are serving over a few billion requests per day. Microservices & API culture FTW !

I wrote a chrome extension to solve something similar i.e. filter out by keywords and then sort my timeline to see popular tweets that I shouldn't miss.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackybird/ddlhmpom...

Updated extension should now let you filter tweets based on keywords (& also sort tweets by popularity...)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackybird/ddlhmpom...

Somewhat related : Wrote a chrome extension [1] to reduce some noise on twitter. It should be easy to add the ability to filter out tweets by keyword (I'll do it probably this weekend if it is useful).

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackybird/ddlhmpom...

Shameless plug : Try this [1] chrome extension to find popular tweets in your timeline or in search results.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackybird/ddlhmpom...

Amazon has a lot of cash & experience to pamper customers but once it wins over, all that'll change. The best outcome for millions of customers is to have 1 or 2 strong competitors to Amazon that'll be around for a long time to come. Else you'll be stuck with Amazon's monopoly !

I follow a few 100 users for news but it's overwhelming to keep up if you aren't checking every half an hour. To scratch an itch, I use a chrome extension (shameless plug [1]) to sort them by popularity and I can also tune down chatty users without blocking them.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackybird/ddlhmpom...

Talking about deliverability, I've got a gmail contact whom I've been mailing for 10+ years, almost daily using my gmail account. One day that person mistakenly marked a single email as spam (instead of clicking delete). From then on, all my future emails to that person started going to spam for a month before we realized what was happening.

Spam filters are so aggressive & dumb that they can't filter out a false spam report. Moreover, if I've explicitly added a contact to my address book & that contact has done the same for me, and we've been mailing for 10+ years, almost daily, often multiple times a day, then it's really annoying & unexpected for our email to end up in spam.

Hate spammers who've made a simple communication so complex for everyone.

/rant

Some other random ones that I've used in the past :

http://www.cronmaker.com/

http://crontab-generator.org/

http://www.openjs.com/scripts/jslibrary/demos/crontab.php

http://htmlminifiers.com/cron-maker.php

http://cron.nmonitoring.com/cron-generator.html

https://crontranslator.appspot.com/

http://cron.schlitt.info/

They've got a very compelling free tier to get you roped in. Works great as a CDN, integrated SSL, great interface, DDoS protection / firewall, page rules - there are just a few of the useful features.

Is there a more comprehensive free tier anywhere else ?

P.S. I'm not saying they are the best choice. They are simply too convenient & comprehensive to get started. With a single click your site can "claim" to be HTTPS even though the upstream connection "may not" be encrypted.

I Disagree. Whether the idea is trivial or not, it's the execution that determines the outcome.

Intrigued by the whois information :)

Creation Date: 20-dec-1999

Expiration Date: 20-dec-2025

> Twitter, much more so than their competitors, tries to stick as close to the original form of their product

And I hope they stay that way. Despite reports on twitter's dropping valuation, I find it as an immensely valuable tool for staying up to date. I'd pay to use twitter.

I use twitter primarily as my news reader and I follow about a 100+ users.

I wrote this chrome extension to re-order by twitter timeline so that I don't miss out on the important stuff and to tune out users who tweet a lot but I still don't want to mute them. It's currently not open source, but if there's sufficient interest, I'll cleanup & put it here : https://github.com/hackybird/chrome . All data is stored locally in your browser.

Usage : Just load a timeline & click the extension. No signup needed.

Features :

- Sort any twitter timeline (or search) by retweets & likes

- Assign weights to users to change their tweets' order (e.g. someone whose tweets are important to you but they don't gather enough retweets/likes & may get buried down).

- Mark tweets as "read"