Tag Archives: Hopsy

The Whuffiebank API Ruby Gem

But I like the idea of Twitter handles having a certain monthly ‘karma number’. That’s why I built this open source gem. 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.

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hopsy, a better twittersphere

Do a Hopsy search and find useful Twitter messages. How? Hopsy ranks the Twitter search results using an influence number. People on Twitter are influential according to the messages and links they tweet. Your followers endorse you (RT) or don’t. The links you share start trending or don’t. That is influence.

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