What's Happening on Twitter
We just did a joint post with R*W*W* on what people talk about on twitter. We found three types of conversations. Status updates of every day activities like "getting coffee" or "check out this post on X" etc. Second, short term memes where many people talk about some event before, during or after it. These conversations are usually short lived, from a few minutes to hours. For example a TV show like "Lost" will have some buzz, before during and after the show airs but drop out of the stream very quickly. Third are long term memes of interest that people talk about for days. Politics or new games are great examples of these longer term thoughts being expressed. Check out the full post.
Have you guys thought about providing a feed to the 'trending twitter' subjects? I think that would provide a very sticky way of getting people to continue coming back to Summize (I certainly would love it as a journalist/author as a way of seeing breaking news and things I should be paying attention to).
Great service,
All the best,
Tobias
Posted by: tobias s buckell | May 13, 2008 at 04:37 PM
Your service has an XSS hole. See this url:
http://summize.com/search?q=%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E
it will display your current cookies in an alert window, but it could potentially do much worse.
Posted by: Philip Tellis | May 18, 2008 at 03:22 AM
Philip -- thanks for the heads up. We fixed that problem.
Posted by: Greg Pass | May 18, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Do you have a better place to report this stuff? Something not quite as public as your blog ;)
Posted by: Philip Tellis | May 20, 2008 at 01:35 AM
Philip -- Yes, you can email us at feedback@ :)
Posted by: Greg Pass | May 21, 2008 at 01:19 PM