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There have been many attempts at this kind of thing before, e.g RecommendBox. The trouble is it requires active participation. If I want to share the love I'm far more likely to shout out on facebook or twitter. Perhaps what you need to do is scrape your friends/followers feeds for their likes?

Also - how are you going to stop spam? THe first wibbler I checked was this: http://wibba.com/thisiskewl/

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understood. im not sure how we could scrape twitter for peoples likes. we don't have that semantic capability.

so are you using as it requires active participation it will be impossible to get traction?

I'm not saying impossible, just hard. If I feel the need to share, I'm probably going to use the channel that gives me the widest exposure, and the most relevant. This is likely to be facebook or twitter.

Edit: if you could identify semantically likes on twitter, that would be a neat little app. Aggregating likes would be valuable I'd have thought.

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