Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter

hammock 14 years ago |

Do all my twitter peeps have to connect to migratus as well for this to work? That's what it seems like.

I was expecting a service that would scrape all the G+ profiles for the twitter names listed there and compare it with my list of twitter followers.

migrochefort 14 years ago | |

By scraping all Google+ profiles, it would not solve the problem of fake profiles. Anyone could use your Twitter username and let your followers think they are you. With migratus, you are sure that the Google+ profile it gives you is the one provided by the Twitter user.

code_duck 14 years ago | | |

If they can somehow create content that fools me into thinking they are the original person, I might just be as interested in following the impostor instead.

hammock 14 years ago | | |

How large of a problem do you think this is?

migrochefort 14 years ago | | |

I don't think it's a problem at the moment, but it could easily become one when such tools become available to the public.

Though, I still think that an non-perfect tool as described above would bring much more value than what migrat.us brings with its 500~ users.

dedicated 14 years ago |

This is not very useful. It's essentially a directory that maps twitter ids to G+ profiles. If you're the first of your friends to sign up, you'll find no results.

Hard to categorize a tool as useful if it has social network effects (needs critical mass).

Note that by signing up you're giving up the profile association willingly into their database.

mrinterweb 14 years ago |

As much as I'd prefer to consolidate to using Google+, Google+ is not a replacement for Twitter for me. I would like to be able to post publicly based on broad topics like #programming so that all of my friends and family that have no clue what technobabble I am rambling about would not have to see it in their feed. I created a programming circle, but that does not make my posts public if I post to that circle. As far as I know, any time you post to public, everyone who has put you in a circle sees your post. I get the impression that this is what Sparks is for, but I have not yet made the connection. Possibly I do not understand how to use Google+ yet. If someone knows how to accomplish this, please tell.

celticjames 14 years ago | |

With G+ it's possible to filter your output (into circles) but there's no way to filter the input. I've put all my hacker friends into a hacker circle, but when I browse that stream I get all their public/extended posts plus the posts for whatever circle they've put me in. Basically, they know I'm following, but they can't know why I'm following. I can't signal to them that I want them to put me in circle for all their hacking posts and not their pictures-of-cats posts.

I've actually started making posts that say, "If you can see this post, I'm following you because [X]."

jase_coop 14 years ago |

Not so great - Seems to require your Twitter followers to associate their Google account on Migrat.us before it's of any use.

tonfa 14 years ago | |

Yeah, and people can already link to their twitter from their profile page. So this shouldn't be needed, a simple crawler should be sufficient.

patrickaljord 14 years ago | | |

Scraping might not even be needed given that Google has an API for that http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/

migrochefort 14 years ago | | |

A crawler offers no warranty that the Twitter username is legit.

daniel_iversen 14 years ago |

Whats the "Google+ ID" you need to associate?

- firstname.lastname@gmail.com - https://plus.google.com/100033678853935069816 - 100033678853935069816

??

migrochefort 14 years ago | |

It's the numeric id only.

zdam 14 years ago |

I created an app that uses a different approach.

http://www.twittertoplus.com/

It relies on people you follow having used http://gplus.to to create a Google+ name that matches their Twitter name.

Currently it finds about 20% of the people you follow.

migrochefort 14 years ago | |

Even if the results are not all accurate and that relying on gplus.to may not be the best solution, I get more results with it than with migratus, which is why I added a link to your app on migratus.

code_duck 14 years ago |

Google already has automated system to link up members to other profiles across the web. They could help with this fairly easily. Would people find that intrusive or creepy?

motyar 14 years ago |

Oh error there http://min.us/mymp6U

code_duck 14 years ago | |

Yes, and also an inadequately configured server.

migrochefort 14 years ago |

The new design is up.