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Re:Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code by wheels on Thursday January 22, 2009 @07:56AM (#444686)
There's definitely a cost-benefit scenario, but I think in Twitter's case much of their run-away usage has been because exactly that ecosystem exists. It's like an early adopter's wet dream. My biggest gripe with it is the rate limiting since it means I can't actually build the apps that I want to.

(I'd love to build a friend-finder for it. Theirs sucks. That's a perfect setup for our graph discovery stuff, but we need to be able to traverse several levels out to do something useful with it.)

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Re:Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code by cstejerean on Thursday January 22, 2009 @04:25PM (#445411)
I think rate limiting is precisely where Twitter can monetize. They can sell API keys that allow for higher usage.
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Re:Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code by jfarmer on Thursday January 22, 2009 @01:22PM (#445153)
There's http://mrtweet.com/ and http://www.whoshouldifollow.com
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Re:Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code by arockwell on Thursday January 22, 2009 @09:00AM (#444746)
Off-topic, but I did see a pretty good friend finder linked to on hacker news the other day. Can't remember the name of it though.
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Re:Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code by wheels on Thursday January 22, 2009 @10:42AM (#444898)
Hmm, if you stumble across it let me know. If you've build some secondary app that people are using you can probably get away with scraping out bits of the graph along the way, but most of the ones I've seen just do some very simple counting of friends rather than trying to do anything like finding clusters or trying to figure out which of them you're not likely to already know about.
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Re:Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code by unalone on Thursday January 22, 2009 @11:23AM (#444953)
http://www.whoshouldifollow.com/

Think this is the one he was talking about.

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Re:Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code by arockwell on Thursday January 22, 2009 @01:44PM (#445194)
Yes, that was the one. I thought it gave pretty good recommendations.
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Re:Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code by wheels on Thursday January 22, 2009 @02:15PM (#445222)
Yep, they're pretty good. I'll probably play with it a little more later to figure out what the rough weights on correlation are.
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Re:Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code by gelliott on Friday January 23, 2009 @03:34PM (#447025)
Hey, I'm one of the guys who built WhoShouldiFollow. Glad the recommendations are working out for you.

The Twitter API rate-limiting makes things harder, but as a whitelisted app we haven't (yet) run into any situations where we've hit our quota or get throttled in any way.

It sounds like Alex is working on a new method to retrieve a users followers/friends in bulk which should help out a lot: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/...

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