Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

This is truly the most advanced algorithm ever seen ;)

    https://twiktwok.github.io/firstVids.js

blocked_again · 6 years ago

That's just the ouput cache of the algorithm's last run. The algorithm itself is pretty advanced and is run on the developers's biological neural net.

stopyellingatme · 6 years ago

Love the term *biological neural net" Great way to say "still in the noggin"

oefrha · 6 years ago

Reminds me of the best no-bullshit algorithm:

  int getRandomNumber()
  {
     return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
               // guaranteed to be random.
  }

https://xkcd.com/221/

codetrotter · 6 years ago

Also, this one https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

tucnak · 6 years ago

Haha very funny, classic xkcd

heed · 6 years ago

So all of the content is manually uploaded to the repo?

homero · 6 years ago

I'd do that too but it would be cached and updated hourly. Why hit the Twitter api on each request?

benbristow · 6 years ago

You could set the app up to call the Twitter API but cache the response in memory or something like Redis so you don't need any background jobs/file management etc.

galuggus · 6 years ago

Hahaha

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Built by HNer galuggus, who mentioned this deep in another thread. Give him some karma:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24095821

galuggus · 6 years ago

Much appreciated. I'll be in this thread answering any questions. Bug reports and feedback very welcome. This app was made with help from Tanya of techtwox.com

codetrotter · 6 years ago

When you swipe to next video, you have to unmute each time. I know that mobile browsers only allow muted videos to auto play but was wondering if you’ve thought about finding a way to make it so that you only have to unmute the first video.

I know that this is possible to do, because for example YouTube is able to do that in mobile browsers. I don’t know how they do it, but for example if you open this link in a mobile browser and unmute it and allow auto play to continue to next video after it then notice that the next video is unmuted as well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0MW0mDZysxc

I guess it might be that they reuse the same player element that was unmuted or something like that.

I think it would be possible to achieve something similar even with multiple player elements by doing something clever.

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ehsankia · 6 years ago

Is there any algorithms involved, or is it just ranked the same for everyone, and ordered by most ranks?

wyxuan · 6 years ago

FYI- To encourage more organic “karma” , votes that are cast from people who accessed direct links aren’t counted

searchableguy · 6 years ago

HN always surprises me with little measures like this one.

galuggus · 6 years ago

I don't follow your meaning. Could you explain more?

samblr · 6 years ago

This is pretty cool. Well done galuggus.

llacb47 · 6 years ago

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Scaevolus · 6 years ago

This really makes you appreciate how much higher quality TikTok videos are than Twitter! (no account/app needed-- https://www.tiktok.com/foryou )

nsomaru · 6 years ago

Unfortunately that makes me download the app. Firefox for iOS

njsubedi · 6 years ago

For me it’s only the banner prompt at the bottom of the page.

aabbcc1241 · 6 years ago

Unfortunately that doesn't work with web archive

morsch · 6 years ago

I just got an endless stream of incredibly boring garbage. Gave the algorithm some feedback to tune it to my interests, but there's nothing there for me. I guess now I know what the fuss is about though.

I meant in terms of video bitrate-- regarding content, the default feed is unlikely to appeal to working professionals, but it does tune itself rather effectively when fed preference data. I have no idea if it will do personalization from the web site.

thisismyswamp · 6 years ago

You're an intellectual

blisseyGo · 6 years ago

Slightly related but some Redditor "created a NSFW TikTok clone, with just portait-mode porn gifs, some with sound. (works best on mobile)":

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/enn048/i_creat...

These are neat, but in my mind, TikTok is far more about the ForYou algorithm than the fact that it's a scrolling feed of videos. The latter is fairly easy to do, as showcased by this very thread. Any decent engineer can throw together a demo like this fairly easily. TikTok's huge success though seems to be due to how good it is at predicting what people will like, which is something that even Youtube struggles to sometimes. Of course predicting 10s videos is much easier than predicting 5m videos.

genericacct · 6 years ago

The algo has been failing pretty bad; "hide videos from this user" does not work anymore, i suspect it can only deal with a limited number of ignores. Last summer I did an experiment, tapping "not interested" on any food-related video (I was on a diet) and yet i kept being shown food videos.

bradgessler · 6 years ago

Microsoft x TikTok = Bing Bong

Clippy clop

jenkins6g · 6 years ago

This is pretty cool, I like the aspect of simply watching videos. I think I made it to the end of videos though, not sure if this was intentional or if you want to continue to paginate videos forever lol. Appreciate your idea and work, keep chugging!

Thanks, your encouragement is appreciated

organicfigs · 6 years ago

I don't have a tiktok nor a twitter, but somehow I sincerely enjoyed consuming this, nice work!

Thanks. I'll put it on product hunt tomorrow

echelon · 6 years ago

Does product hunt help at all? What's the objective and audience in posting there? Genuinely curious.

jkingsman · 6 years ago

Neat idea! Bummed I can't use a scroll wheel; dragging with a mouse to emulate touch is not my favorite thing.

Cool overall though

drusepth · 6 years ago

Wow, it didn't even occur to me to try dragging with a mouse. I'm on a touchscreen laptop and when touching-and-dragging didn't work (only moved the videos a little bit, but not enough to go to the next one), I just assumed it was mobile-only.

Adding this feature. This is still a work in progress.

ALittleLight · 6 years ago

Can the sound selection persist between videos? i.e if I turn it on for one video, I'd expect it would be on for the next video.

Great stuff!

Added this feature you can now use arrow keys or the mouse wheel