Even though I have tested it and written tests to go with it, I haven’t used it yet. I plan to implement it on Hopsy, but I haven’t had time yet.
I am not a hardcore user of the Whuffiebank, meaning that I haven’t given any whuffies yet and no one has ever given me any whuffies. I have yet to contribute to the Whuffie economy.
But I like the idea of Twitter handles having a certain monthly ‘karma number‘. That’s why I built this open source gem. Hopefully it will be useful for many developers.
The higher the number, the more important the result. Simple. That’s my attempt to reduce the ‘Twitter noise‘ out there. I know there is still a long way to go.
The Whuffiebank API Ruby Gem
The other day I released the Whuffiebank gem. It is a library that implements the Whuffiebank API in Ruby.
Even though I have tested it and written tests to go with it, I haven’t used it yet. I plan to implement it on Hopsy, but I haven’t had time yet.
I am not a hardcore user of the Whuffiebank, meaning that I haven’t given any whuffies yet and no one has ever given me any whuffies. I have yet to contribute to the Whuffie economy.
But I like the idea of Twitter handles having a certain monthly ‘karma number‘. That’s why I built this open source gem. Hopefully it will be useful for many developers.
At Hopsy, I have used it to rank tweets. I have built a simple formula that takes the Topsy influence and the Whuffiebank reputation and returns a number.
The higher the number, the more important the result. Simple. That’s my attempt to reduce the ‘Twitter noise‘ out there. I know there is still a long way to go.