Show HN: Hacker News with tweets from your friends (yc.backtype.com)

44 pointsomakase15y ago7 comments

Hacked this up really quickly for fun last night: http://yc.backtype.com

Shows the hn front page w/ tweets from your friends. E.g.: http://yc.backtype.com/?x=davemcclure

7 comments

Very nice! Displaying the tweets on hover is a nice touch.

That is very interesting in filtering out stuff that might interest me. Very nice experiment - true way of adding a social layer, I must say.

it's super effective!

Doesn't show the avatars for me.

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44 pointsomakase15y ago7 comments

Hacked this up really quickly for fun last night: http://yc.backtype.com

Shows the hn front page w/ tweets from your friends. E.g.: http://yc.backtype.com/?x=davemcclure

Very nice! Displaying the tweets on hover is a nice touch.

That is very interesting in filtering out stuff that might interest me. Very nice experiment - true way of adding a social layer, I must say.

it's super effective!

Doesn't show the avatars for me.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse