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Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by hyperpape on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:29PM (#24434551)
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.

Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by glial on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:03PM (#24437021)
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.”

Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by hyperpape on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:29PM (#24435154)
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...

Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by searchableguy on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:17PM (#24436660)
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.

Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by dmurray on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:51PM (#24436916)
I wonder if it sorts by popularity ahead of relevance (maybe after meeting some minimum threshold for relevance). In another post I've commented about the surprising high quality of the results.

@realdonaldtrump has huge reach on Twitter, as well as a distinctive style, so maybe there is no one who posts in a similar style (TBH I'd expect most to be parody accounts) who has achieved sufficient popularity to compete.

Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by boogies on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:36PM (#24437272)
> maybe there is no one who posts in a similar style (TBH I'd expect most to be parody accounts) who has achieved sufficient popularity to compete

A couple pages down there are non-@realdonaldtrump tweets scattered here and there, always in pairs as far as I can see (https://twitter.com/majorbear70/status/1286690669826842626 & https://twitter.com/DavidWaddell5/status/1127214256636813313 https://same.energy/?q=I+heard+Bill+Clinton+might+be+joining..., and https://twitter.com/RealWayneRoot/status/1161435864506884096 & https://twitter.com/Mcphie00/status/1163080988085358592, Control-F to search), except scattered individual tweets from @RealDonaldTrFan

Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by content_sesh on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:14PM (#24437107)
Searching for a similar tweet to this one only netted one other Trump tweet:

https://same.energy/?q=The+Coca+Cola+company+is+not+happy+wi....

Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by mellosouls on Thursday September 10, 2020 @03:09PM (#24435520)
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).
Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by dmurray on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:45PM (#24436864)
They're also generally funny and original! I'd take these ahead of a curated list of "20 funniest tweets about programming languages" [0] or, say, Reddit r/ProgrammerHumor all time top posts, so that's something that's difficult to achieve programmatically.

[0] OK, I didn't look for a source of these, because Google has the same inadequacies with recommending funny content. If anyone would like to recommend one, I'll read it to give a fair comparison.

Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by Razengan on Thursday September 10, 2020 @07:49PM (#24437818)
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

Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by gojomo on Thursday September 10, 2020 @03:22PM (#24435620)
Interesting! As the creator, can you say anything about the algorithm(s) used to determine similarity?
Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by FnControlOption on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:00PM (#24434876)
@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

Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by notRobot on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:47PM (#24434738)
Really cool! It'd help with the context of the tweet if the date on which it was posted was included too.
Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by jfax on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:27PM (#24435140)
Immediately started punching in dril classics and am thoroughly impressed with the results. Well done.
Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by nwsm on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:14PM (#24437100)
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.
Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by kristopolous on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:17PM (#24435039)
these results are not terrible. relevant long tail results are hard. well done.
Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by gitgud on Friday September 11, 2020 @03:54AM (#24440155)
> 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

Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by swlkr on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:45PM (#24434713)
this is impressive, how does it work?
Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by pedro1976 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:53PM (#24435376)
In elasticsearch there is a more-like-tis query [0], that returns similar documents for a fulltext, next to a couple of optimizations that they might use.

[0] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...

Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by keenmaster on Thursday September 10, 2020 @04:48PM (#24436426)
I assume it uses AI/ML stylometry.
Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by aurenh on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:35PM (#24448450)
played around with this. well done!
Re:Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content by gotostatement on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:38PM (#24434651)
nice work!