Tweeple Search
Web and SaaS
influencer search
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.32.
Idea: 2 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Easy to use and enjoyable to explore
From 1 comment
It's an easy to use page, and I enjoyed noodling around for a bit. I didn't get results that I expected, and I'm not sure if that's your product or Twitter. If I had money I…
DanBC on HN
Marketing team liked it for finding signup targets
From 1 comment
I passed this onto marketing team and they seem to love it. I think a tool like this is what we have to use for more appropriate signups when doing any significant release.
navinsylvester on HN
Objections
Bio-based search returns false positives and irrelevant accounts
From 3 comments
The heuristics seem overly blunt. Clicking on "Entrepreneur", which is the most visible endpoint on the homepage right now, returns a listing of people who have "celebrity" in…
danso on HNI tried something on similar lines,there are some problems with this.Bio's usually don't represent the kind of person or field influencer but instead provide false positives.…
karthiksk2012 on HNClicked on vegan and got this as top result: ``` pewdiepie @pewdiepie jackseptic replied to me 12/04 17/f/Stockholm/Vegan/Lvl6YTHero/ ```
Kiro on HN
Results miss well-known accounts in niche topics
From 2 comments
It's an easy to use page, and I enjoyed noodling around for a bit. I didn't get results that I expected, and I'm not sure if that's your product or Twitter. If I had money I…
DanBC on HNI worked on this exact same problem one summer, and it's a much harder problem than I anticipated. The makers of this would probably concur -- I haven't gotten great results,…
sbuccini on HN
Daily search limit hit quickly
From 1 comment
The heuristics seem overly blunt. Clicking on "Entrepreneur", which is the most visible endpoint on the homepage right now, returns a listing of people who have "celebrity" in…
danso on HN
Requests
Support for Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest
From 1 comment
Is there any way to do this for Instagram / Facebook / Pinterest? This seems like it could be super useful.
tmaly on HN
Questions
Where does the data come from and is it real-time
From 1 comment
Where do you get the data from? real time via twitter's api?
brak1 on HN
What is the added value over the Twitter API
From 1 comment
Or: use the API from twitter (free up to 900 req/15 mins) and sort by followers: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/users/search What's the added value of Tweeple Search?
bartkappenburg on HN
Alternatives named
Twitter user search API
From 1 comment
Or: use the API from twitter (free up to 900 req/15 mins) and sort by followers: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/users/search What's the added value of Tweeple Search?
bartkappenburg on HN
Traackr and Little Bird
From 1 comment
> Isn't AleydaSolis involved in that project? Or perhaps it's someone else... Indeed, she participated in tribalytics for some time. > Also who are the big leaders in the…
me_bx on HN
Nuzzle
From 1 comment
You can achieve this for a few accounts with the Twitter API, but due to API limits, it is tough to get it done at scale and make a product out of it. There are creative ways of…
naren87 on HN
Tribalytics
From 1 comment
This approach is also flawed, as people tend to share different type of content at different times. The same person may be tweeting about a specific conference they attends to,…
me_bx on HN