About two months ago I learned about Topsy. I really like their solution to organizing the ‘Twittersphere‘. They use links to organize content, define trends and rank twitterers.
The truth is there is way too much noise in Twitter. A lot of people posting characters about nothing or everything. I still don’t understand how people can follow 100+ people. The Twitter list feature is an answer to this problem.
(A sample of the twitter clutter/mess/noise)
I am on Twitter and I post useless stuff constantly too. Everybody does it. I like a particular feature from Topsy: The Topsy influence. I believe that can be used to rank the tweets. The Topsy influence number is a number from 0 to 10 which defines how influential you are, according to the links you posted.
A few weeks ago I joined the Topsy API group (Otter API) – I noticed there wasn’t a Ruby gem implementation to the API, so I decided to build it. That’s how rtopsy was born. Basically it’s a Ruby implementation of the API. It creates Ruby objects from API requests/responses. It is simple and straightforward.
I still need to work on it, test it and improve it, but an initial version is out: http://gemcutter.org/gems/rtopsy – This is my first open source project and I am excited about the possibilities of people using it. I welcome any sort of collaboration/feedback.
rtopsy, the Topsy API ruby gem
About two months ago I learned about Topsy. I really like their solution to organizing the ‘Twittersphere‘. They use links to organize content, define trends and rank twitterers.
The truth is there is way too much noise in Twitter. A lot of people posting characters about nothing or everything. I still don’t understand how people can follow 100+ people. The Twitter list feature is an answer to this problem.
(A sample of the twitter clutter/mess/noise)
I am on Twitter and I post useless stuff constantly too. Everybody does it. I like a particular feature from Topsy: The Topsy influence. I believe that can be used to rank the tweets. The Topsy influence number is a number from 0 to 10 which defines how influential you are, according to the links you posted.
A few weeks ago I joined the Topsy API group (Otter API) – I noticed there wasn’t a Ruby gem implementation to the API, so I decided to build it. That’s how rtopsy was born. Basically it’s a Ruby implementation of the API. It creates Ruby objects from API requests/responses. It is simple and straightforward.
I still need to work on it, test it and improve it, but an initial version is out: http://gemcutter.org/gems/rtopsy – This is my first open source project and I am excited about the possibilities of people using it. I welcome any sort of collaboration/feedback.
You can also see a sample of what you can do with rtopsy with Hopsy: Check out today’s Twitter Trends!