This sounds like what I've already done (for fishing) at http://FishTwits.com ...
With my codebase, creating similar sites for sports, food, tech, whatever would mostly just be a matter of getting a new layout designed and new lists of keywords made up. Feel free to contact me off-list if you'd like to talk about doing so. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:14:58PM -0400, Chad Etzel wrote: > This sounds like a 3rd party API application opportunity to me... > -Chad > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:11 PM, leonspencer <spencer_l...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > The new lists are a great way reduce the clutter in timeline. However, > > I immediately notice management problems with the lists where tweets > > are duplicate in timeline and list for tweets that have nothing to do > > with the list. For example, let's say I have a sports list: > > > > http://twitter.com/#/list/leonspencer/sports > > > > I add userA that tweets about sports. But userA also tweets about > > food. And being a friend, userA will tweet about personal stuff. > > > > If a user tweets about sports, dining, and personal stuff, ALL of > > these tweets are shown under the sports list as well as my timeline. > > Furthermore, if I create a second list for food/dining and add userA, > > ALL of the tweets regardless of food or sports will display under both > > lists. > > > > So what would be great is for Twitter to allow the optional > > specification of one or more hashtags when associating an account with > > a list, which would indicate tweets from that account should only > > appear under this list IF these hashtags are part of the tweet. > > > > Leon > > -- Dave Sherohman
