Folks first, excuse my french, I was just asking for a simple feature nothing else, yeah okay using the word authority was… my french. Oh and yeah, you are right number of followers is in no way a measure of any authority. I find it interesting to search through that filter and agree we need more filters, period. Ah before I forget, I never suggested it would be anything else then optional, would not force anyone to use it, I do not see what is the censorship some people talk about, or then call Google with censorship as they built their entire success on Page Rank…
Jon Wheatley just did it though, in less than 12 hours here is what he writes me:
“Since I read your post this morning about authority based twitter searches I’ve been frantically trying to come up with a solution with some friends. 12 hours and numerous cups of coffee later I think we’ve cracked it.
You can now perform authority based twitter searches at http://twitority.com
This wasn’t an easy task. There are some very real limitations on the twitter API so we had to hack around it a little bit to find a way to do this. This obviously isn’t an ideal solution but hopefully it will suffice until twitter implements the feature themselves.”