# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 24
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/gsewnyq
Guys, I have a bad news, I went through the twtxt-osphere :
- I found 1289 twtxt account
- among those 721 are accessible ( 712 http / 9 gemini / 0 gopher)
- but only 111 account are still active in 2022 :S (107 http / 4 gemini / 0 gopher).
I have also rank all the accounts by influence. (just for fun) without surprise @prologic is the 1st most influential twtxter, @lyse you are 3rd, (I'm 32nd)
results here
@tkanos I'm 6th, 57th, and 1280th. What metric did you use, total number of mentions? Also, is this supposed to be a continuation of mdom's project of the same name?
@tkanos Haha that's amazing work 👌 And those sort of numbers more-or-less line up with the [search engine and crawler[(https://search.twtxt.net/stats) (_which needs a bit more attention and love, maybe some more features too?_)_
@tkanos Haha that's amazing work 👌 And those sort of numbers more-or-less line up with the [search engine and crawler[(https://search.twtxt.net/stats) (_which needs a bit more attention and love, maybe some more features too?_)_
@tkanos Seeing some duplicates of my feed there. 😅 Also, at least mine (gopher://uninformativ.de/0/twtxt.txt) is gopher-accessible and I know a few others (not many, though).
How do you identify a feed? Did you take the url metadata field into account (if present)?
@tkanos Seeing some duplicates of my feed there. 😅 Also, at least mine (gopher://uninformativ.de/0/twtxt.txt) is gopher-accessible and I know a few others (not many, though).
How do you identify a feed? Did you take the url metadata field into account (if present)?
@tkanos Seeing some duplicates of my feed there. 😅 Also, at least mine (gopher://uninformativ.de/0/twtxt.txt) is gopher-accessible and I know a few others (not many, though).
How do you identify a feed? Did you take the url metadata field into account (if present)?
@tkanos Seeing some duplicates of my feed there. 😅 Also, at least mine (gopher://uninformativ.de/0/twtxt.txt) is gopher-accessible and I know a few others (not many, though).
How do you identify a feed? Did you take the url metadata field into account (if present)?
@tkanos I have the same question as @mckinley. What is influence? If I'm third place, I should probably slow down. :-D
Somehow I think "influence" is the wrong word here 😂
Somehow I think "influence" is the wrong word here 😂
@tkanos nice work. What are the ranking based on? Number of posts in the feed?
@prologic if _influence_ (c) is motivating to twt more often, I guess it's a good influence 😛
@tkanos interesting, kudos for the hard work.
Saying something obvious here, I think twtxt as a plain text format is so easy to create but not so easy to consume and extremely hard to use as a conversations tool.
It's missing the famous 'network effect' to hook into real conversations. So it could transform into a communication protocol, rather than a timed text format.
@tkanos I've seen much more than 9 Gemini accesible twtxt files, perhaps the capsules are down? 🤔
Also, what's the difference between found and accessible? Being linked in any page counts as found and then the link being broken makes it non accesible?
@tkanos check it out, I'm the new kid on the block and I'm already 34th! 🤓💪
@darch@lyse @mckinley Based on an idea by @eaplmx I used a simple quickly and dirty made walker algorithm (bypassing the spider trap) to find the interconnected account (1289) I only found the interconnected ones (since 2016) (if you have accounts that you know and are not referenced I can send the walker algorithm across them) :
- Some don't answer anymore, the one that does answer => accessible (721)
- Some still post in 2022 => active (111)
Then I computed a normalized ranking algorithm in all of those with the number of time a people talk about you for the influence (it sounds like I'm talking like a star trek characters).
@tkanos Really interesting. What origin points you had? twtxt.net for instance?
I'm in #236 (with a forgotten .txt I'm not planning to use anymore) and #31 with this account. The one I started a few days ago is not there: https://eapl.mx/twtxt.txt (I'm not complaining :P)
How do you find interconnections? With follows and mentions?
@tkanos This is really interesting stuff. Do you plan on sharing the code, or at least a more detailed write-up of your process?
@tkanos So basically it counts the mentions? We definitely need some feed normalization database, too many broken mentions out there. :-)
@lyse yep it's the main component (how many time people talk about you). I can share my code, but not now, I will be really ashamed to share such horrible code. Let me 1-2 weeks to refactor, and I will.
@tkanos Thanks for the clarification. Haha, it's always the same with quickly cobbled together code. ;-)