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WHEN IS TWITTER GOING TO TURN A PROFIT??? NO ONE CARES ANYMORE UNTIL THEY ACTUALLY BECOME A BIG BOY BUSINESS AND TURN A PROFIT

twitter is inherently a spammer's heaven. It's really easy to make 140 characters seem legitimate. An hour of writing spun content and a really easy to build signup bot and you can have full conversations, retweets, everything.

There's a reason twitter gets spammed so much, and it's because most of the time, normal people's 140 character messages look just as spammy as the actual spam.

Why does loading TechCrunch take me 9 seconds? What exactly are they doing to cause such a slow load? Why does a page load for them require 330 requests?

How do we submit our own startups?

Sure, but with a system that is active (like HN), there would be enough votes coming in frequently enough to handle the ranking updates and account for time increases without needing to hit the system every 5 minutes.

I'm a coder, entrepreneur, and huge philosophy fan. I think many people similar to me (IE people here) also love philosophy as well all enjoy thinking, logic, and problem solving, the epitome of philosophy.

Thanks for that!

There's a difference between being honest and being a self-absorbed jackass though. The original email sent by the student was harmless and sincere and the response from the blogger was pretentious and whiney.

Quite frankly, I wouldn't have posted this email exchange on my own blog if it was me because I feel it would portray me in a negative light. To each his own I suppose.

Can't you do it every time someone votes? The scores aren't dependent on any other items other than their own votes, so each time it gets a new vote, you rescore it and it will drop or go up on the front page accordingly.

sure, I admit the emailer went on to judge, but his initial email was:

> Hello, I'm citing your work for a debate article I'm using > about space colonization and how it is improbable. I do > need credentials however, and I've yet to find them online. > If you could reply with your credentials that'd be great.

No harm in that email, very simple.

But then the blogger went on to whip out his e-peen and tell the kid to go to his wikipedia rather than just write "I'm a self taught novelist who thoroughly researches his topics he writes about but doesn't have credentials in the traditional sense".

EDIT: I apparently have no idea how to do quotes on HN despite my valiant attempt to do so. I apologize.

Regardless of whether or not credential requirements are founded, those are some pretty dickhead email responses. Why cuss at someone asking a genuine question?

Internet tough guys are so cool.

What a godawful name. Impossible to pronounce correctly without sounding like you have a speech impediment.

Good example of quirkiness gone too far in the world of branding.

It baffles me how, with the number of investors involved and the huge amount of money on the line, Twitter is making any strategic move other than "how do we get profitable"

and yet no profit has been had...good job twitter, good job

I did this about a day after they officially launched +1 with Ruby for my own app. I scrape probably 2-4000 urls a day, it works fine.

Most badges or like buttons can be reverse engineered like this, it's not too hard.

"Cash – As of December 31, 2010, cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities were $35.0 billion."

http://investor.google.com/earnings/2010/Q4_google_earnings....

Because they mine the everliving shit out of the data for improving ranking algos and getting people to buy more ads

you can easily scrape google without having to use something as bulky as htmlunit.

When I teach people how to scrape, exercise #1 is scraping Google with Ruby Mechanize and Nokogiri. xPath is your friend

thanks. I just set it up last weekend so I'm still working on getting things revved up, so we'll see what happens. I'll take a look at your thread and jump in with some thoughts today.

EDIT: replied to ya

I actually setup a forum for SaaS developers with a section specifically for that purpose. You can check out the section here: http://saasaholics.com/forum-pitch-your-saas

I explained this exact point to a friend today at lunch. He vehemently disagreed with me.

No matter what the niche, or the market, there is always room for the simplest solution. Always.

perfect use case for celerity http://celerity.rubyforge.org/

Even after learning how to properly deploy rails apps in production, it still sucks. I want to be able to install the heroku deployment process on my own servers.

my main machine is a 4gb 13" MBA, I do heavy web development with music playing and photoshop open all day long, along with skype, and the thing never skips a beat. 6 hours of battery even after 9 months, weighs less than 3 pounds.

It's the best computer I've ever owned. And it's my first Mac, I'm not much of a fanboy.

How is that a flaw? They have SIX HUNDRED MILLION USERS.

People want junk food. That's why everyone is fat and dumb. They watch junk on TV, read junk online, say junk to people on facebook, and eat junk at home.

0.000001% of people care about privacy and control and less apps & games.

Allow me to categorize my friends into work, friends, family, public categories and you're on the right track. Come up with a novel way to communicate with each other.

join and participate in some forums that are niche related and have users interested in what you built. You can easily bootstrap a SaaS if you have a presence and some authority on a few forums.

The reason Google (and Bing and Yahoo and Yandex and and and) is in the position they are in is because they have the bandwidth and computational power to crawl and index the web with the speed and reach necessary for it to be useful. They aren't going to just start giving that away any time soon...

45% of his total monthly bandwidth used. So say he's getting 50 gigs of traffic a month, the bots make up 22.5 gigs of that

that's like saying it's in a doctor's best interest to make people sick...there's always enough natural problems with sites and servers to warrant uptime monitoring

Ummmmm...there are 86400 seconds in a day, so that's just under TWO THOUSAND requests a second...significantly more than what you mentioned.