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Re:Show HN: Beak – Measures how "smart" your tweets are (Fea... by hijohnnylin on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @05:07AM (#8003619)
Hi HN,

I built this on July 4th, while pondering what effect Twitter has on modern day communication.

It analyzes the grade level of a Twitter account by using a modified version of the SMOG readability index and tells you your "smartest" and "un-smartest" tweets. Beak also tells you how you rank vs other Tweeters. There's also a leaderboard.

This was a fun day project for me and I'd really appreciate any feedback, comments, and suggestions.

Thanks, jl

Re:Show HN: Beak – Measures how "smart" your tweets are (Fea... by tzs on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @06:24AM (#8003797)
Interesting. My "smartest" and "un-smartest" tweets together give an oddly accurate picture of me.

Smartest (grade level 17.1): Am I a bad man for buying Pepperidge Farms Holiday Entertaining Cookies (repeatedly!) even though I shall do no holiday entertaining?

Un-smartest (grade level 3.1): THERE IS A MOTHER FUCKING LIZARD IN MY MOTHER FUCKING HOUSE!

Re:Show HN: Beak – Measures how "smart" your tweets are (Fea... by marcosscriven on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @07:07AM (#8003918)
Didn't seem to work so well for me. "Good news - float textures have arrived in iOS 8 beta 3 WebGL" doesn't seem all that 'um-smart'

https://twitter.com/marcosscriven/status/486449369005056000

Re:Show HN: Beak – Measures how "smart" your tweets are (Fea... by hijohnnylin on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @01:08PM (#8005516)
Interesting - TIME.com cloned this idea today without referring to Beak . I suppose it could have been a coincidence though? http://time.com/2958650/twitter-reading-level/
Re:Show HN: Beak – Measures how "smart" your tweets are (Fea... by mp4box on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @11:36PM (#8007943)
Re:Show HN: Beak – Measures how "smart" your tweets are (Fea... by hijohnnylin on Thursday July 10, 2014 @08:40PM (#8018291)
hey thanks for the catch! added some sanitization on the input.