Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline I'm a developer at IndexTank, we are having an internal contest similar to the public one we had with Heroku a few days ago. My entry is an app to search your personal twitter timeline, something I've been wanting Twitter to do but for some reason they don't. Does anyone find this useful? http://friendtweets.heroku.com/ |
Should I be more patient waiting for results (in case your app loads all my friend's tweets incrementally)? Then maybe you should display a spinner or something.
It's incremental, so it may take a while. There's a limited number of allowed twitter API calls per hour, so in case you have lots of friends it'll take some time to have them all indexed.
About the status, there's a status bar on the upper right corner.
I believe http://snapbird.org/ does this for "searching beyond Twitter history".
But if you try this on all of your friends, it soon becomes very, very slow. Eg if you have 100 people you follow, and they all have ~2000 tweets (or that's how deep you want to go), you'll have 1000 API requests. That's for one users' friends timeline.
I'm searching with text, yes, but what I'm really looking for is insight.