The idea was to see if I could avoid the problems of digg et all by not having votes/comments. Instead it listens passively to twitters public timeline.
A 'vote' is cast every time a url is mentioned in a twitter and a 'comment' is what is said around the url in the twitter message. I'll add 'comments' soon.
same reason people are interested in popurls or the NYTimes' most-emailed-articles.. it's a filter. Throw up some google ads...
If there weren't horrible privacy implications, I'd be curious to see what would happen if AIM or gTalk mined their IM traffic and threw up the most popular/IM'ed links...
The idea was to see if I could avoid the problems of digg et all by not having votes/comments. Instead it listens passively to twitters public timeline.
A 'vote' is cast every time a url is mentioned in a twitter and a 'comment' is what is said around the url in the twitter message. I'll add 'comments' soon.