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Re:Show HN - A tweetmeme of its own for every city by kalkat on Thursday January 19, 2012 @07:29AM (#3484196)
Agree, should have said "Building a tweetmeme of its own for every city". This is the first release, we are taking the no. of cities to 50+ with the next release in 6-8 weeks.

The focus till now has been on building algorithms that are kickass enough to filter junk out and keep only useful stuff in. Still WIP I know, but what do you think about that. Take http://frrole.com/san+francisco for example.

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Re:Show HN - A tweetmeme of its own for every city by southern on Thursday January 19, 2012 @07:31AM (#3484203)
The suggestion is that the user should be able to enter any city, not just use the preset ones.
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Re:Show HN - A tweetmeme of its own for every city by kalkat on Thursday January 19, 2012 @07:38AM (#3484225)
Thanks, that is how it is intended to be in the longer term. But going to hit Twitter's rate limits very soon and access to full firehose is way too costly for a bootstrapped startup.

Hope to scale to 50+ cities by ourselves, validate traction with users from those 50 cities and then look at really big scaling, if it is getting some love:)

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