World: r3wp

A friend of mine built a very cool system that weighed RSS feeds, 
sort of like how Netflix weighs movie ratings.  It was real time. 
 But no one understood how cool it was.

So for example, you might want all feeds that mention REBOL.  You 
set it to grab 100%, in so doing, and since I know you, if I even 
ask for 5% of my news to be REBOL, it would give me a little more 
since others that I know really like "REBOL" related stuff.  

http://jaanix.com/
 
Play with it.  He works for Skype now.

Interesting - too bad it was abandoned. Seems a precursor to

http://research.ly/


These days, people are writing apps against Twitter API. It'd be 
pretty easy to drill down into links found in tweets to extract even 
more context for ranking/rating.

Agreed, on both counts.

Adrian, the same "others will share it" works with RSS, it's not 
necessary to have a single company "owning" the messages.


But, if all you do is share links and look at the most popular ones, 
then isn't reddit a much better choice?

The fact is that there are quite a few ways to stay on top of what 
others consider worthy of interest, but, in the end, what brings 
the most value to these systems is how widespread their use is. Statistics 
become more valid when the sample size is increased and ia as diverse 
as possible. Right now, Twitter is the most ubiquitous such system, 
so it's where I look.

Agreed, just like I said, Twitter is popular rather than good. :-)

Twitter module for REBOL by Chris RG works great !
http://www.ross-gill.com/page/Twitter_API_and_REBOL

cool!

Yes, I'm using it too.. very good work..

New VID client from Chriss : http://reb4.me/r/twitter-vid.html

I'm a little confused about the reference to a secret key and the 
like:  "Before you start, you’ll need an Consumer API Key and Secret. 
 If you don’t already have these, you can register an application 
at Twitter’s Developers Site"  I went to the site, but didn't have 
a clue as to what I should do there.  Any suggestions or links for 
me to investigate?  Thanks.

Follow the tutorial : http://www.ross-gill.com/page/Twitter_API_and_REBOL

That is what I mean -- I'm confused by it. The Twitter developers 
site asks for Name, Description, Website, of the application.  Do 
I just enter dummy information here or am I createing another version 
of the same twitter app?  Just not sure what this is asking for.

For me, I've create RebTweet application. Maybe you can create P61Twitter 
for exemple. No matter. You just need to declare your application 
in order to get Consumer API Key and Secrect.

I see now -- I created P61Tweet  (anything with Twitter in the name 
is rejected).  It is not yet working, having issues logging in -- 
I suspect it is due to how quickly OAuth is refreshed.

Thank you nve!

Can someone help me.  I'm having trouble using the code:

settings:	[

        ; Source from:	http://www.ross-gill.com/page/Twitter_API_and_REBOL

        ; prerequisite:	https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new(one time for below)
        c-key:		#VPC....MLyQ		; C-Key
        c-secret:		#jYK4....POjI		; C-Secret
        u-store:		%/MyApps/TwitterUsers.r
        twitter:		http://reb4me/r/twitter.r
    ]

do settings			; assigns parms

do/args twitter context [
	Consumer-Key:	c-key
	Consumer-Secret:	c-secret
	User-Store:		u-store
	]

I get the following:

connecting to: reb4me
** Access Error: Cannot connect to reb4me
** Where: open-proto
** Near: do/args twitter context [
    Consumer-Key: c-key
    Consumer-Secret: c-secret
    User-Store: u-store
]

I must be missing a step or something.

You have a type, the correct domain name is: reb4.me

type => typo :-)

Dooooh -- How did you spot that -- really!!!

Perfect!!!  Thank you Dockimbel

I looked at the error msg: "Cannot connect to reb4me", clicked on 
Twitter_API_and_REBOL link, searched in the page for "reb4" and saw 
that the domain you were using was wrong. :-)

One little period is what I missed!  :-)

Is anyone using Chris's twitter app? I can't seem to get it to send 
messages via update. I always get a unable to connect to twitter 
error. All the other refinements work.

Sorted, and added a little note to the doc (as I said I would : )