Subjot: A Topic-Based Twitter, Without The Noise

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/31/subjot-a-topic-based-twitter-without-the-noise/

by giffc • 15 years ago

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I've been enjoying Subjot's the private beta for a few months now. A few of my friends are on as well. I'm very happy to not have to listen to them drone on about a couple of topics that usually dominate their twitter feeds.

rwolf• 15 years ago

Since every thread on HN about google+ has a top comment about how google+ should have this (self-tagging, able to follow user+topic in addition to being able to follow user), I'm glad someone has written something like it. playing with subjot will give me a feel for how this concept plays out in practice--well done!

joshu2• 15 years ago

IMO self-tagging fails in broadcast mechanisms, because people are massively incentivized to distribute things as widely as possible.

we're thinking about how to add categorization to jig, so i am thinking about this a bunch.

ccarella4• 15 years ago

joshu I love your work and would love to talk to you more about this in general.

There is a disincentive to using a more generic subject and broadcasting out-of-context on Subjot, which is that people unfollow you.

I saw one user doing that in our private beta and I unfollowed him, since the entire premise of Subjot is having a feed of stuff that is interesting. We have a very unfollow friendly culture, so it's not a faux pas to unfollow a subject that you don't find interesting.

It is not a one size fits all solution but it has been working for us. Just like you wish you could unfollow your friend who live tweets the entire episode of Gossip Girls, on Subjot you can easily unfollow specific aspects including a broadcast subject.

Ade_Lack2• 15 years ago

Been on the Subjot BETA for a couple of months and have only been totally impressed. May have a few scaling issues around topic tags but from what I have seen so far no reason why this team couldn't tackle it. Great work!

Ade_Lack2• 15 years ago

If you want to try Subjot you could start with HN on Subjot: http://subjot.com/all/hn OR tell us about your startup: http://subjot.com/all/startup and the feedback tag is getting lively too: http://subjot.com/all/feedback

andredieb2• 15 years ago

I tried to use it for a while but gave up when I couldn't find a simple way of finding my twitter follows that also have a Subjot account. Did anyone tried/succeeded doing this?

ccarella4• 15 years ago

This would be the url to use http://subjot.com/explore#friends

You can find it via Explore in the header and then People on the sidebar.

andredieb2• 15 years ago

Thank you for your reply! ;)

It seems I don't have any twitter friends on Subjot, yet..

Congratulations on Subjot! I really like the idea. Are there plans for some kind of 'reputation' for people in specific subjects they talk about?

xyzzyb• 15 years ago

Looks a lot like byteposts: a subject-oriented twitter/irc hybrid.

Subjot: A Topic-Based Twitter, Without The Noise

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