I built a system for auto Twitter lists based on queries + filters

by alexbosworth • 16 years ago

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To create an auto list, login, perform a query or an advanced query with the filters button, and then pull down from more actions to add the results of your query to your list. It will add maximum 50 per day.

It's written in 100% node.js - you can see the code here http://tweetbe.at/node/search.js

Code is shared between web client and the server, this is something that would have been nightmarish without node.js

juliamae• 16 years ago

thanks for building this. i would love to use twitter lists, but find their UI makes it totally impossible to create and maintain lists.

however, i am having problems getting anything useful out of this tool either. the first search i wanted to do was for people i follow in X location. i attempted to use the bio field, but whatever i search for in bio ends up with an @ in front of it, and it doesn't seem like it's searching the location field anyway.

also, it would be chill to be able to search for people i follow that have tweeted about, say, ruby in the past two weeks or something so that i can easily put them into a "rubyist" list or something.

its nice to just see everyone in one place in one list with checkboxes, which makes this nicer than twitter's list interface, but i have a feeling based on the filters (number of followers? twitter client?) that this tool wasn't designed with the average user for personal use in mind.

I built a system for auto Twitter lists based on queries + filters

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