Instacurate

Turn your Twitter timeline into a personalised news site

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Turn your Twitter timeline into a personalised news site

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You Don't Know Africa

Maker

If you're more of a reddit person than a Twitter person, there's Instacurate for reddit, too. http://www.instacurate.com/s/red...

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11yr ago

Seafronts

I would love for there to be some curated pages picked out by editors, just to help give initial users an idea of what the service is like.

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11yr ago

You Don't Know Africa

Maker

@itskathuria Good idea. We used to have something like this when we launched Instacurate, but changes in Twitter's API made it impossible to show content to users who are not logged in. Could you perhaps expand a little more on what exactly you'd wish this to look like?

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11yr ago

You Don't Know Africa

Maker

Thanks for hunting this. Happy to answer questions and to take your suggestions on how to improve it (please note that the code is open source, so you might as well just send me a pull request ;-) ). https://github.com/davidbauer/in...

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11yr ago

You Don't Know Africa

Maker

I can't add it as a related product, but in case you're interested: The NYT R&D Lab has a similar product, called Vellum. http://vellum.nytlabs.com/

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11yr ago

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Hunter

@davidbauer What inspired you to make this and what are your future plans with it?

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11yr ago

You Don't Know Africa

Maker

@_ryangilbert It was sort of my self-imposed «graduation project» from Code Year that I did in 2012. I challenged myself to build something that was beyond my skills, hoping to acquire them as I go along. And Instacurate was the sort of product I personally wanted to have, so I went for it. What's more, curation is one aspect of journalism I'm particularly interested in and after starting a newsletter for hand-curated content (www.weeklyfilet.com), I thought it would be interesting to try automated curation, based on signals people already gave elsewhere (by following others on Twitter). What's next for Instacurate? It's been on standby for some time – I still use it, as do others – but there has been no development recently for a lack of time. That being said, there are still a couple of features I'd like to implement, so let's see...

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11yr ago

Facebook

We tried to do this a number of years ago with TweetMag

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11yr ago

You Don't Know Africa

Maker

@jlax Nice!

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11yr ago

thirdweb

Nicely done.

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11yr ago

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Hunter

@sleinadsanoj not mine but I found it last night and really liked the simplicity of how the news is delivered - all from people who I opted in to following. My only suggestion for it right now would be to have that Pinterest-style infinite scroll. It seems to stop at the end of that day's news. It would be nice to go back a few days, at the very least, to view things I may have missed earlier.

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