February 15, 2010
A very nifty twitter aggregator
STL Tweets is only for Saint Louis, but it was created with locative extensibility in mind. Using a secret sauce, it aggregates local tweets into categories and subcategories and finds the most linked articles and pictures. It’s more compelling to look at than explain; needless to say, this is precisely the sort of thing that should have existed for awhile, but hasn’t (at least, not well implemented). Kudos to the folks at Infuz for pulling it off.
One thing I did notice was that an occasional non-STL tweet would make it into the fray or it would flat out miss some users in the STL area. There is nothing that can be done about that, apparently, unless twitter fixes its hidden fail whales in the geocode search API.
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Andrew-
*blushing* Thanks for the praise and the write up! We’re very appreciative of both.
STLTweets.com has been a fun project and we’ll be constantly tweaking and improving the site over time. We’re also working on launching these aggregators in other cities and packaging up the back-end as a platform for others to license.
As for non-STL tweets showing up in our stream – it certainly occurs. Unfortunately, we’re at the mercy of Twitter and their efforts, while very good, aren’t perfect, so we get the occasional false positive. We’ll keep working at improving this, though, so please stay tuned!
Thanks Again!
Jason Fiehler
Founder and CEO
Infuz
You bet, Jason. I am good friends one of your devs, Michael Lang, and we talk about twitter and other such web sundries all the time. He has been hinting at some sort of secret-ish project for awhile. It’s nice to finally see what he was talking about.