MicroPlaza解决了Twitter链接共享问题

Due to its speed and distributed nature, Twitter is absolutely great at disseminating and spreading breaking news. Because of that, there are a bunch of sites trying to aggregate links on Twitter in an attempt at turning it into the next Digg or Techmeme. Twitter, though, is not very well suited to telling us what the crowd likes. Sites that rely on the “retweet” in order to rank links come the closest, since retweeting can be looked at as an implicit vote for that link (much like the backlinks used by Techmeme or Google). Retweet-based aggregators that look at the entire timeline are still kind of clumsy, though. They’re scattershot in the links they uncover and don’t do a great job at consistently showing me things I am interested in.

由于其速度和分布特性，Twitter绝对擅长传播和传播重大新闻。 因此，有很多网站试图在Twitter上汇总链接，以将其转换为下一个Digg或Techmeme。 但是，Twitter不太适合告诉我们人群的喜好。 依靠“转推”对链接进行排名的网站距离最近，因为转发可以被视为对该链接的隐式投票(很像Techmeme或Google使用的反向链接)。 但是，基于转推的聚合器可以查看整个时间轴，但仍然有些笨拙。 他们分散在发现的链接中，并且在向我持续展示我感兴趣的内容方面做得不好。

About a month ago, in a post entitled “Could Twitter Ever Replace Digg,” I argued that while Twitter isn’t great at showing what the crowd likes, it could be very effective at pointing out what your friends like. In that post I laid out the structure for a system I thought would accomplish that: “If there were a Twitter tool that could look at my friend graph, and then pull out all the links my friends have tweeted and arrange them by popularity (how many times have they been tweeted, weighted toward my friends) and retweets (how many of my friend’s friends thought it was a worthwhile link), it would expose a sort of Digg-like picture of people I already presumably find interesting.”

大约一个月前，我在一篇名为“ Twitter能否取代Digg的文章 ”中指出，虽然Twitter并不擅长展示人群的喜好，但在指出朋友的喜好方面可能非常有效。 在那篇文章中，我提出了一个系统结构，我认为可以完成以下工作：“如果有一个Twitter工具可以查看我的朋友图，然后拔出我朋友发布的所有链接并按受欢迎程度进行排列(如何他们有很多次在Twitter上发推文，对我的朋友们偏重)和转发(我的朋友中有多少朋友认为这是一个有价值的链接)，这将暴露出类似于Digg的人们可能已经很有趣的人的照片。”

A couple of hours after the post went live, I was contacted by Olivier Verbeke, a Belgium-based entrepreneur who is CEO of Knowledge Plaza. Verbeke let me know about a new service that was just going into private alpha called MicroPlaza that essentially did exactly what I was asking. Today, MicroPlaza is expanding beyond the initial 50-person test set and beginning an invite only beta.

该帖子发布后的几个小时，比利时企业家Olivier Verbeke与我联系，他是Knowledge Plaza的首席执行官。 Verbeke让我知道了一项新服务，该服务即将进入名为MicroPlaza的私有Alpha中，该服务本质上确实满足了我的要求。 如今，MicroPlaza的扩展范围已超出最初的50人测试集，并开始了仅邀请测试版。

I’ve had a chance to be one of the early users of MicroPlaza and have come away very impressed. The site maps all links shared by the people you follow on Twitter and displays them by popularity (the number of times they have been retweeted) or by date in a Techeme-style link + sources view. MicroPlaza is great for a few reasons. First, it lets me easily track all the links shared by the people I am interested in on Twitter without requiring me to watch my timeline 24/7. Second, it lets me pay attention only to the most popular links, if I so desire. Third, it encourages me to follow more people, and follow only people who tweet about things I care about, because the more (interesting) people I follow, the more utility the site will have for me.

我有机会成为MicroPlaza的早期用户之一，印象深刻。 该网站会映射您在Twitter上关注的人共享的所有链接，并按流行度(被转发的次数)或按日期显示在Techeme样式的链接+来源视图中。 MicroPlaza之所以出色，有几个原因。 首先，它使我可以轻松地跟踪我感兴趣的人在Twitter上共享的所有链接，而无需我观看24/7时间轴。 其次，如果我愿意，它可以让我仅关注最受欢迎的链接。 第三，它鼓励我关注更多的人，并且只关注关注我关心的事情的人，因为我关注的人越(有趣)，该站点对我的作用就越大。

It’s true that if you follow oft-retweeted users, such as @problogger, @mashable, or @sitepointdotcom, your “popular view” timeline might be dominated by their links. In fact, your timeline might be already if your followers are retweeting links from these people. It would be nice to have the ability to block links originating from certain user names — or at least assign them less weight if they’re not people I follow (if they are, I presumably want to see those links anyway). Perhaps MicroPlaza could weight links so that oft-retweeted items are only pushed higher on my timeline if more than one of the people I follow is retweeting that link (with the threshold determined by the usual retweet behavior of the people I follow).

的确，如果您关注经常被转发的用户(例如@problogger ， @mashable或@sitepointdotcom) ，则“流行视图”时间轴可能会受到其链接的控制。 实际上，如果您的关注者转发了这些人的链接，则您的时间表可能已经存在。 如果能够阻止来自某些用户名的链接，或者如果不是我关注的人，至少给他们分配较少的权重(如果是，则我想无论如何都想看到那些链接)，这将是很好的。 也许MicroPlaza可以加权链接，以便只有在我关注的一个以上的人转发该链接时，经常被转发的项目才会在我的时间轴上被推高(阈值由我所关注的人的通常转发行为决定)。

MicroPlaza attends to this problem somewhat via a feature called “Tribes.” Tribes are essentially groupings of your friends that act as filters. For example, I follow a number of Twitter users who most often tweet political links, and a bunch of others who mostly tweet about web technology, and still another group who generally tweet about entrepreneurship. I could arrange those users in Tribes and view timelines of just the links they’re talking about. The process is simple, though can be tedious if you have a lot of followers since you have to add each follower to a tribe one at a time.

MicroPlaza通过称为“部落”的功能解决了这个问题。 部落本质上是充当过滤器的朋友的分组。 例如，我关注许多Twitter用户，这些用户最经常发布政治链接，以及一堆其他人大多数发布关于网络技术的推文，还有其他一群总体上发布关于企业家精神的推文。 我可以将这些用户安排在“部落”中，并查看他们正在谈论的链接的时间表。 该过程很简单，但是如果您有很多关注者，可能会很乏味，因为您必须一次将每个关注者添加到一个部落中。

MicroPlaza has two other helpful features: Bookmarks, which allow you to save your favorite links, and the very compelling “Being” feature. Being lets you become any other Twitter user and view the timeline based on the links tweeted publicly by their friends. This allows you to do a couple of things. First, you can see the types of things that thought leaders in your field are paying attention to, and second, if you aren’t following many people, the Being feature lets you explore links shared on Twitter in a fairly organized way in order to find people who tweet about stuff you’d be interested in reading.

MicroPlaza还有另外两个有用的功能：书签(可用于保存您喜欢的链接)以及非常引人注目的“成为”功能。 成为您可以成为任何其他Twitter用户，并根据其朋友公开发布的链接查看时间轴。 这使您可以做几件事。 首先，您可以看到您所在领域的思想领袖正在关注的事情的类型；其次，如果您没有关注很多人，那么“存在”功能可让您以相当有条理的方式浏览Twitter上共享的链接，以便寻找对您感兴趣的东西发推文的人。

Soon, MicroPlaza will be adding a search engine, as well as charts and statistics for shared items. The site is also one of the first users of Twitter’s new OAuth implementation, meaning that soon you should be able to Tweet about items you find via MicroPlaza directly from the site without having you enter your Twitter username and password.

很快，MicroPlaza将添加搜索引擎以及共享项目的图表和统计信息。 该网站还是Twitter的新OAuth实施的首批用户之一，这意味着您很快就可以直接通过MicroPlaza在网站上发布关于通过MicroPlaza找到的项目的推文，而无需输入您的Twitter用户名和密码。

In all, MicroPlaza is the best Twitter link sharing site I’ve seen. It solves the problem of only exposing me to links I care about relatively well, and has a number of compelling features that really set it apart from competitors. The site enters invite only beta today, but the public timeline is available to anyone, so you should be able to explore how the service works right away.

总之，MicroPlaza是我见过的最好的Twitter链接共享网站。 它解决了仅将我暴露在我比较关心的链接中的问题，并且具有许多引人注目的功能，这些功能确实使它与竞争对手区分开来。 该网站今天仅进入邀请测试版，但是任何人都可以使用公共时间表，因此您应该能够立即探索该服务的工作方式。

翻译自: https://www.sitepoint.com/microplaza-solves-twitter-link-sharing/