Comments on: Cursebird Leaderboard

By: JESSE DZIEDZIC

JESSE DZIEDZIC — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:15:03 +0000

That was interesting piece of writing!

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:55:20 +0000

All the best of luck to you!.Thanks for the information.

By: I cursebird more than you do. « Thinking Stiff

I cursebird more than you do. « Thinking Stiff — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:49:12 +0000

[...] this is just from seeing people come up on the live feed. Many people have asked for a Top 10 list (thoughts on a leaderboard). I wouldn’t mind seeing one either, but after staring at it for hundreds of hours, [...]

By: thinkingstiff

thinkingstiff — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:34:09 +0000

I also just noticed that on a cleaned list, with my original hand-typed 700 tweets, I still would have been on the top. An example of the “cussing their hearts out” tweeter being able to take the top.

By: thinkingstiff

thinkingstiff — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:22:23 +0000

I’ve also thought that maybe I’m overestimating the staying power of the bots. Perhaps manual cleaning won’t be that big of a deal and the bots will get tired of trying.

Two lists might work.

By: Richard Henry

Richard Henry — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:52:10 +0000

@bollocks is on the list of bugs to fix before I release the leaderboard. It’s caused by the Twitter API returning swears matching a username in addition to the text body, which isn’t the desired result. It was only when someone tweeted me about it that I realised things weren’t happening as expected.

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Possible Solutions:

1, 2: These are both possible solutions; and it’s always better to automate rules if possible to keep a level playing field. I’m thinking about a couple things myself.

3: Unfortunately this is pretty much impossible. Grabbing follower counts for each user would require far too much API interaction above and beyond that I’m already doing; and I would quickly hit the rate limit.

4: It would be too easy to evade that by having an array of random dictionary words inserted into tweets to prevent duplication.

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Conclusion:

Perhaps I could publish a filtered list alongside a raw list?

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Good article, you’ve said a lot of things I wanted to say myself in a post but never had the time.

Richard