I built this with @kidcapricious because we found we were spending more time adding articles to apps like Instapaper and Pocket than actually reading them! "Something" pulls in and stores the best articles people you follow on Twitter are sharing and lets you quickly read something good, or skim through until you find something interesting. During our beta, feedback was consistently that users were reading (and enjoying) articles they wouldn't normally have read.
@edlea And, living with the app for some time, we've come to really enjoy the ephemeral nature of it. You're conscious that once you swipe away an article - it's gone; if you want to do read it, you'll need to do it now!
You can still favourite the tweets/articles on twitter in-app.
Shake to undo a swipe.
Just a question, your app only takes articles from news sources right?
It seems it doesn't download news articles that are shared by the people I'm following ?
I may be wrong.
@pierre_vannier There are a couple of things happening - first it grabs the links people you follow are sharing. Then it ranks them based on various factors, such as age, number of favourites, etc. Finally, it downloads article content for each link, when it can find some. We're improving our article extraction - at the moment we're getting a few more false-negatives than we'd like so you won't see *every* link
@edlea thanks! Are there any intelligence with languages? I mean I follow 1/3 french tweeple and 2/3 american/english.
So far I haven't seen any news articles shared by my french tweeple...whereas they definitely shared news articles today. Any clue?
@pierre_vannier No intelligence around language - probably an unintentional bias towards English as we've tested more in English. However, I've seen a couple of French articles correctly parsed in the past hour
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