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twixy.live

32 pointsShinji0418s24 comments

Here is a little project I made recently: https://twixy.live/ Twixy is a service where people can have an instant 1on1 call with a follower on twitter.

It only takes 4 steps to begin your call: (1) Login to Twixy, (2) Create a room on Twixy, (3) Share room link on twitter, (4) Have a chat with your follower!

I have made this service because I wanted to give people a totally new way to get connected with fans on twitter. Especially in this time, I felt like we needed more time to get connected easily with people.

Try this service and any comment/feedback would be appreciated. If you like this service please share it on your own twitter as well! That would great.

Thanks,

Shinji

> This application will be able to:

    See Tweets from your timeline (including protected Tweets) as well as your Lists and collections.
    See your Twitter profile information and account settings.
    See accounts you follow, mute, and block.
    Follow and unfollow accounts for you.
    Update your profile and account settings.
    Post and delete Tweets for you, and engage with Tweets posted by others (Like, un-Like, or reply to a Tweet, Retweet, etc.) for you.
    Create, manage, and delete Lists and collections for you.
    Mute, block, and report accounts for you.
    Send Direct Messages for you and read, manage, and delete your Direct Messages.
    See your email address.

Uh, really no.

something something you are the product

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear

I really dislike these "nothing to hide" takes.

It's not just "something to hide". You're giving a tiny project complete read/write access to your twitter. What if the creator abandons it and sells it to a malicious owner? What if it gets hacked? What if someone who's out to get you finds this as an attack surface?

The API separates these permissions for a reason.

Awful, awful take. I’m shocked people still say this.

What an interesting social engineering project. How many Twitter accounts do you fully control with via your permission settings? Any interesting ones to manipulate crypto or stock prices?

Hi! Cool product :)

2 questions:

- Are these really 1-to-1 calls? Looks more like a room where many could join?

- It's not limited to twitter, is it? I could share it anywhere, right?

Hi! Thanks for your comment! I have answered your question below:

- Are these really 1-to-1 calls? Looks more like a room where many could join? > It is currently only a 1-to-1 call! So you can have a call with only the first follower to join in the room. We are looking to develop 1 to many call functionality soon though!

It's not limited to twitter, is it? I could share it anywhere, right? > You can post the room link on any platforms technically but it is preferred that you post the room link only on twitter!

Thanks,

If you have any questions, please let me know!

Shinji

If you really want to keep it Twitter-specific, the person who joins the call could also auth via Twitter and I think you could verify that they actually follow the call’s owner before they’re allowed to join? Otherwise this seems wide-open for trolls/bots, and kind of only half-anchored to Twitter.

How is this different from just using https://meet.jit.si ?

I have a couple of thousand followers on Twitter[1] and I'm pretty sure at least 1800 of them are dead[2]. Twitter engagement is nowhere near what it was 5 years ago. I'm surprised to see a new service targeting it instead of one of the much more active, newer social networks.

Maybe it's only dead inside my little bubble though.

[1] Follow me! @onion2k obviously. Although I have no idea why you would.

[2] Dead accounts, not actually dead. Although statistically speaking a few of them probably are actually dead.

> I'm surprised to see a new service targeting it instead of one of the much more active, newer social networks.

I honestly cannot come up with what other social network can be targeted apart from instagram, but honestly I am out of touch in this space anyways. We can't use a audio visual social network like tiktok, club house etc nor the ones which target short face to face conversations like snapchat.

Thanks for your comment! To give a little explanations:

I thought that twitter might be a best place to promote this application reason being I honestly cannot think of any other service that might be a good fir for Twixy.

Yes, I think you are right about the fact that the engagement has been reduced over the past years but still many twitter accounts have high engagement rates. Especially, those accounts that have created their strong fan bases like cosplayer, celebrities, etc.

So I should start dressing up as obscure anime characters in order to get replies to my tweets...

Just a small tip replace React favicon.ico for the website.

Yes,, thanks! will replace them.

This is bound to come up some time, how would you differentiate yourself from Clubhouse/stereo type apps? I like leveraging twitter network effects to bypass the community seeding stage, that is an interesting angle. Do you even see this as a clubhouse competitor?

Thanks for your comment! I see clubhouse as a more open community encouraging 1 to many calls or many to many calls. However, Twixy is a service you can leverage your existing twitter followers. Also this is a 1to1 call service to encourage more close communication or engagement with your followers!!

Hence, maybe clubhouse could be competitor but at the moment, I do not see clubhouse being our direct competitor!

Please follower our twixy twitter account as well! https://twitter.com/Twixy_official

How is this different than any other generic WebRTC calling app, like Jitsi etc and how is this special to or connected to Twitter?

Furthermore, you have another comment in this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27758256 ) which I can't reply to. Why? ( @dang ? )

I can share my twitter account password instead of those permissions you want. Same results anyway

How is this different from Twitter Spaces?

Thanks for your comment! Twitter space are more open community. Twixy encourages people to have more close communication/engagement with follower with 1to1 calls!

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