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Ask HN: Review my site TweetBoss (www.tweetboss.com)

4 points by freddy ↗ HN
A few months ago there was a lot of postings about a Yahoo engineer who mashed up Yahoo BOSS with Twitter to create a search engine that ranks links based on how popular they are in Twitter. I liked the concept, but I don't want to search, if I have a few seconds I just like to see what is popular and read an article or two about it. So thats what I did. I created

TweetBoss: http://www.tweetboss.com

Basically it takes the most popular search terms on twitter and searches Yahoo News for articles about them and then presents in a simple format. The idea being as I said you have a few seconds to catch up on some news. It is just another way to present the news. It is very first cut but I would love your feedback.

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Steve0
Very nice work! Good idea and love the implementation. Still some work to do, but you've probably noticed this as well.

It's better to group synonyms, like "IE8" and "Internet Explorer 8", but how you would implement this is a mystery to me.

Also some content are duped stories on different sites, maybe a filter could fix this.

freddy
yeah I agree, that is a good idea to help clean up duplication. Thanks for the comments, let me know what else you can think of.
catch404
Wish I could upvote this x100 - Great idea, it's exactly what I need! Well done :)
raamdev
Very cool.

Slight bug with the refresh counter. I clicked the TweetBOSS logo to refresh the page when the counter was at 0.2 min(s) and the counter updated to "Next Refresh In: -0.1 min(s)". ;) (Subsequent refreshes showed the correct countdown.)

freddy
yeah I noticed that, thanks I will fix now.
freddy
Cool thanks for the heads up, fixed now.
JustAGeek
Very useful! Added to the links I visit every morning. Thanks a lot for this webapp!