Unladen Follow 2: How annoying would this user be?
A new version of Unladen Follow is now live. Over the holidays, I received a lot of awesome feedback from users and beta testers, as well as some insight from using it myself. The focus of v2 is researching a potential followee, rather than simply your current ones. Changes include:
- User detail pages give you linkable details about one Twitterer.
- “What If” lets you see where a user would rank in your list.1
- Your followees list now only shows the loudest users by default.
- The algorithms now completely ignore @replies.2
- A logout mechanism.
- A diagram to explain why I created an unfollow helper anyway.
I was tempted to wait for in-app unfollow and more robust error handling before launch, but I’ve been too busy to add much in the last couple weeks. What do you think of what’s live so far?
- You can also use this as a trick to update the score of a user you follow using more data. [↩]
- In general, your followers won’t see your @replies so they’re not annoying. It would be nice to only count @replies that you can’t see, but now that there’s parts of the app that don’t require authentication, that’s not feasible. [↩]
Jan 16 2010
3:01 pm
I love the “anatomy of a tweet,” but you should really duplicate it in HTML (the headings at least) so that it ends up getting indexed. It’s probably your best draw overall.
You may want to try adding a list of famous people loads, and comparisons of the one off tests to these (or ranking within your list). I’m guessing most people will test their own twitter use, and seeing how you rank in your own twitter list might be interesting.
It’s getting more useful, keep it up!
Jan 17 2010
11:26 am
Yeah, giving more context like that for the profile pages would help. (What is 14 units anyway?) Thanks for the tips.