Ask HN: Review my Twitter App (ReTweetize.com)

http://www.retweetize.com/

by ankeshk • 17 years ago

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ankeshk7• 17 years ago

Not sure if its cool making an offer here... but if you run a startup, send me your twitter id after logging into ReTweetize.com (My twitter id = @ankeshk or email me ankeshk AT ankeshkothari.com) - and I'll add 20,000 points to your account. Not a lot but should get a few hundred visitors to your startup site.

warwick• 17 years ago

It feels like a spamming service to me, just with a twist to make it less detectable.

ankeshk7• 17 years ago

Thanks.

Its a reciprocation tool. But it does give people choices to retweet the messages they like. They don't have to retweet all the messages. They can read 20-30-40 (upto unlimited) messages and select just 4 of them to be retweeted per day. If they like none of the messages - they retweet none.

So how is that spamming?

amih• 17 years ago

Maybe you should keep track of messages that people choose to retweet and also assign karma to the people who originated the tweet so you can figure out which tweets are not liked by your users and maybe you can improve the 30 tweet candidates people get to choose from.

danw3• 17 years ago

So you are encouraging people to spam their friends?

ankeshk7• 17 years ago

People can choose the messages they want to RT. If they don't like a message, they can hide it.

Its not like mag-pie or other services where people have no control over which messages are retweeted.

danw3• 17 years ago

I despise RTing as it is. Say something original rather than copy others.

As such I also despise any service that encourages people to RT, especially if it is disinteresting spam.

You've obviously put time and effort into this app. Wouldn't your creative energy be better spent building something useful, delightful, helpful, etc rather than a spamming tool?

Jim_Neath• 17 years ago

Unless you've got a way to monetise this, I'd give up right now.

ankeshk7• 17 years ago

Thanks Jim.

Didn't build the tool for monetization.

Built the tool to make promotion of my other sites and apps easier. (Yes thats my sneaky ulterior motive :p)

If this app succeeds, getting initial seed traffic to other apps would become way easier too.

Ask HN: Review my Twitter App (ReTweetize.com)

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