Guys, I have a bad news, I went through the twtxt-osphere :
- I found 1289 twtxt account
- among those 721 are accessible ( 712 http / 9 gemini / 0 gopher)
- but only 111 account are still active in 2022 :S (107 http / 4 gemini / 0 gopher).
I have also rank all the accounts by influence. (just for fun) without surprise @prologic@twtxt.net is the 1st most influential twtxter, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org you are 3rd, (I’m 32nd)
@tkanos@twtxt.net I’m 6th, 57th, and 1280th. What metric did you use, total number of mentions? Also, is this supposed to be a continuation of mdom’s project of the same name?
@tkanos@twtxt.net Haha that’s amazing work 👌 And those sort of numbers more-or-less line up with the [search engine and crawler[(https://search.twtxt.net/stats) (which needs a bit more attention and love, maybe some more features too?)
Somehow I think “influence” is the wrong word here 😂
@tkanos@twtxt.net nice work. What are the ranking based on? Number of posts in the feed?
@prologic@twtxt.net if influence © is motivating to twt more often, I guess it’s a good influence 😛
@tkanos@twtxt.net interesting, kudos for the hard work.
Saying something obvious here, I think twtxt as a plain text format is so easy to create but not so easy to consume and extremely hard to use as a conversations tool.
It’s missing the famous ‘network effect’ to hook into real conversations. So it could transform into a communication protocol, rather than a timed text format.
@tkanos@twtxt.net I’ve seen much more than 9 Gemini accesible twtxt files, perhaps the capsules are down? 🤔
Also, what’s the difference between found and accessible? Being linked in any page counts as found and then the link being broken makes it non accesible?
@darch@twtxt.net@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @mckinley@twtxt.net Based on an idea by @eaplmx@twtxt.net I used a simple quickly and dirty made walker algorithm (bypassing the spider trap) to find the interconnected account (1289) I only found the interconnected ones (since 2016) (if you have accounts that you know and are not referenced I can send the walker algorithm across them) :
- Some don’t answer anymore, the one that does answer => accessible (721)
- Some still post in 2022 => active (111)
Then I computed a normalized ranking algorithm in all of those with the number of time a people talk about you for the influence (it sounds like I’m talking like a star trek characters).
@tkanos@twtxt.net Really interesting. What origin points you had? twtxt.net for instance?
I’m in #236 (with a forgotten .txt I’m not planning to use anymore) and #31 with this account. The one I started a few days ago is not there: https://eapl.mx/twtxt.txt (I’m not complaining :P)
How do you find interconnections? With follows and mentions?
Start account was a random one (https://niplav.github.io/twtxt.txt) then interconnections are found by following and mentions.
@tkanos@twtxt.net This is really interesting stuff. Do you plan on sharing the code, or at least a more detailed write-up of your process?
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org yep it’s the main component (how many time people talk about you). I can share my code, but not now, I will be really ashamed to share such horrible code. Let me 1-2 weeks to refactor, and I will.