Hi Jeromy, Thanks for the feedback - much appreciated.
It's interesting you raise the points you do around Significant Tweets and Filtering as these two are in there, at least in a first attempt (bad information design perhaps on our part). The conversation and "pinning" is a really interesting idea. We played around with some crowd-sourced mute type features early on. It's worth talking about the issue of "usual" client - not to disagree with you, but more to explain our thinking here. Essentially there is a phenomenal amount of "real" Twitter clients on the market place, but relatively few event focussed clients (although there are a few beginning to creep into the light of day). If we try compete on "real client" + events, we'll lose. We'd have to do a better job than Seesmic, Tweetdeck and Twitter themselves to get eyeballs (plus all the rest). However if we can make the experience around an event so good, that for 5 minutes to an hour a few times a week you'll pop in and use Distlr, then we have an opportunity here. Still yet to be proven, but that's where we are focusing for now - purely events, not a general Twitter client, and in fact we will deliberately avoid "generic" client type functionality in order to help keep that distinction. Really appreciate the thoughts, Cheers, Tim On Oct 4, 12:46 pm, Jeromy Evans <jeromy.ev...@blueskyminds.com.au> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > I had a proper anonymous play with it during the aflgf2. Here's some > of my thoughs: > - a twitter feature focused on events is great. Definitely better > insights than just a search > - however, I probably wouldn't use it unless it was a feature of my > usual twitter client. I would switch to "event" mode during an event. > I'm not sure I'd switch clients unless it was massively better > - rate and keyword information was interesting. I'm not sure I'd > care about top twitterers by number. Opportunities for sentiment > analysis and other useful insights (most "significant" tweets would be > great) > - To make it a truly useful rather than novel I'd need quick ways to > filter that firehose of realtime tweets > eg. filter out retweets, organise by conversation, pin > conversations, quick way to filter out trolls and idiots > > Nice work for a couple of weeks effort! > > cheers, > Jeromy Evans > > On Oct 4, 7:27 am, Tim Bull <tim.b...@binaryplex.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi Hank, > > > Thanks for the questions. It's different from Topsy and Collecta > > (although Collecta has slightly more similarities perhaps because it's > > a little more real time) in that Distlr is focussed on a different > > problem. > > > Topsy illustrates this quite well - if you search for #aflgf in Topsy, > > the "Top" result is a tweet from 9 days ago by Will Anderson which is > > there because it was popular, but it's not relevant at all (nothing on > > Topsy's first page even talks about a replay). > > > So I would say that the critical difference is Distlr is a focussed > > Twitter client first - it puts the participation experience in events > > front and centre. Every other tool either focuses on friends / > > followers OR on monitoring and aggregation, not participation. To > > make that participation on fast moving streams possible, the filtering > > and related features are then critical to enable this. > > > We learnt a lot from this live trial on the weekend about how to > > improve this experience still further. Now have to sit back and have > > a think on next steps. > > > Cheers, > > > Tim > > > On Oct 2, 10:25 pm, hank <hankdr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > From your blog post: "It filters out popular tweets so when the stream > > > moves fast, you won’t miss the important things." > > > > I am right that this is the critical thing that separates it from just > > > searching for #aflgf on topsy or collecta? > > > > On Oct 2, 12:25 pm, Tim Bull <tim.b...@binaryplex.com> wrote: > > > > >http://blog.tribalytic.com/launch-distlr/ > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > Hoping to draw on the support of the community here to get the buzz > > > > out today about our new Twitter client we've just launched called > > > > Distlr (it's athttp://distlr.com). > > > > > We made an observation recently that the way people interact on > > > > Twitter is around events, yet all the clients are focussed on friends > > > > and followers. So a couple of weeks ago we put aside Tribalytic and > > > > designed what we think is the best way to follow live events and > > > > interact with them on Twitter, especially when they become very fast > > > > moving. > > > > > It's literally only hooked into the #aflgf (AFL Grand Final) at the > > > > moment - lots of reasons why (move fast, deploy quickly, focus, learn > > > > lessons, MVP) - we want to try see if people will interact with and > > > > use an application like this and how it goes used in anger before we > > > > invest too much more time. It's also only a web client right now. > > > > > For those of you that aren't AFL fanatics (inconceivable I know) if > > > > there is enough interest, we can hook up the NRL GF as well for > > > > tomorrow. > > > > > Hoping you can take the time to check it out and if you like what you > > > > see, give it a go and tweet to your followers. > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > Tim Bull & Alex Dong -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
