- on http://celebritytweetarchive.com/ users can leave comments under tweets - also seen on tweetmeme. If you can get people commenting, that'd be massive.
- there isn't a twitter account to follow with the submissions. Then place an additional link back the comments page in those tweets.
- have user icons
- count submission points by the number of rewteets made on site, and generally by the site's users off-site, or just number of retweets (or an upvote)
- you could just create a generic 'digg for tweets' - then have a bookmarklet that a person clicks when viewing a single tweet to submit the tweet, or toggle into the site.
- perhaps when a tweet is submitted, it becomes a favorite, or when it is favorited, it is submitted.
I'm trying the "digg for tweets" thing (http://laughlitm.us), its hard to gain traction because its hard to get a viral loop going without needlessly injecting the site into retweets. I am happy with how people can submit though.
That's a niche site, how could you broaden it out, though?
Another interesting idea, would be for submitters to authenticate with such a site, and have it check their "retweets_of_me" "retweeted_by_me" and "retweeted_to_me" aiming to surface what's important.
Tweetmeme has a comedy channel, I wonder how they get their tweets. http://tweetmeme.com/category/comedy - but the tweet is not initially shown, only the link and its extracted content.
Is there a twitter site aimed at crafting the best possible lists in certain categories?
The idea of counting favourites or retweets is actually the idea I was working against. I've always figured that makes it easy to find already easy to find tweets. To say nothing of "retweeted alot" != "funny", even if its from a comedian feed.
I would assume tweetmeme flag comedian feeds and counts retweet links.
I believe there are list sites, but the focus is on the feed rather than the tweet.
Maybe you could also monitor some #hackertweet hash tag and include the matching tweets. That would be convenient to submit a tweet from any client, not just yours.
I like the idea, but next time I visit how do I see the new tweets because they arent ordered chronologically? With reddit and hackernews I usually click through the link and next time I visit I will see the different color link text so I can quickly see what is new. Just something to think about.
- on http://celebritytweetarchive.com/ users can leave comments under tweets - also seen on tweetmeme. If you can get people commenting, that'd be massive.
- there isn't a twitter account to follow with the submissions. Then place an additional link back the comments page in those tweets.
- have user icons
- count submission points by the number of rewteets made on site, and generally by the site's users off-site, or just number of retweets (or an upvote)
- you could just create a generic 'digg for tweets' - then have a bookmarklet that a person clicks when viewing a single tweet to submit the tweet, or toggle into the site.
- perhaps when a tweet is submitted, it becomes a favorite, or when it is favorited, it is submitted.
- split the site into different sections, eg see http://favstar.fm