@PJC@benokur Ah, that's strange. If you click a second time on an avatar, it should switch to inbound (blue arrows, inward).
Inbound: people you retweet, answer to etc. I.e. a proxy of who "influences" you.
Outbound: people who mention you, retweet you etc. I.e people you "influence".
@cam_PJ@MGSiegler@golsong Thanks for asking the question Guillaume. I think it’s a cool story.
I have been a long time fan of @MGSiegler. When I was a product manager at Apple, I used to read every single one of his @TechCrunch posts on Apple. And every single time, he nailed it. Actually, I was learning stuff on my own company when I was reading him!
Fast forward to a few weeks ago. He was testing the @periscopeco app, broadcasting from... a London pub on a Saturday night. I could see the menu with the name of the place on it. I knew this pub and I was so eager to meet him, I left everything and I jumped on my vespa. 15" later I got there exactly as he was leaving. I basically attacked him, out of nowhere :-).
He ended up buying me a drink and we had a good chat. I built Game of Angels following this informal conversation. Hence the fact he is the first selection when you open the site!
NB: by the way M.G., I owe you a drink :-).
@divjpatel Thanks a lot for the kind words. It's funny how it really was just an "experiment" first... and the data itself made it really interesting and surprising I think (at least to me!).
@divjpatel I do have plans, yes. For instance:
- I'd love to find a proper way to show the interactions between geos.
- I'd like to add a "journalists/influencers" layer (e.g. @rrhoover, @JoshConstine, etc). I think it could be fun.
Let me know if there are other things you'd like to see!
@cam_pj I was actually looking for a product that does this as a way to identify influencers of other people. For example, if I wanted to get in touch with the super popular and hard to reach Jane Doe, I might be better off going through someone she listens to, that I might also have a connection with.
There are plenty of applications for a product like this, some of which very relevant to what we're working on at Product Hunt. 😉
@rrhoover Thanks Ryan. It's really interesting.
As a side note: I was really intrigued when I read your "Build your product in public" article (https://medium.com/on-startups/w...). I had never seen this in action myself.
The amount of really good ideas and feedback I have been getting here makes me think it's definitely a genius idea (and the community here is amazing).
Thanks @divjpatel for posting it!
Just a bit of background: I have been amazed by the ability that a fairly small group of "key opinion leaders" have to accelerate the momentum of a cool idea. I spent some time looking at their tweeter feeds and you quickly realise that indeed, many of them are connected with each other and interact a lot. I wanted to have a simple way to display this.
Let me know if there is anything you’d want to see added.
PS: @rrhoover initially I manually added you as well "just to see"… and I can tell you it’s amazing the traction you have :-). Since - as far as I know - you are not really an investor I had to remove your node for the production version to keep things “simple”.
@divjpatel@cam_pj oooo, I'm very curious. Any chance you can send me a snapshot of the results? You're right, I'm not an investor. The goverment won't let me.... and I don't really have money anyway. 😛
@divjpatel@rrhoover Done! Will push a version live when things "clam down" a bit (I am concerned the server might crash otherwise!). I think it really makes a difference when you can actually drag the nodes around to see the pull "power" they have on their connections.
This would be very interesting if you also expanded to just normal people as well, through scraping Twitter data!
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@tzhongg I am not sure what we can conclude from similar data for 'normal people'. It works when we are specific either for audience, or for goals (ideally for both - audience and goals).
@vingar@tzhongg Thanks for the idea Tiffany. It's great!
I would have to think how to do something like this though (or maybe others will have ideas as well?). Indeed, if you don’t restrict the graph somehow, you end up hitting the Twitter API's quotas fairly quickly. I guess a solution could be to make it async (i.e. request your graph and get it a few mins later or something). But again: thanks for sharing your thoughts!
@chrisbarber Thanks for the kind words Chris, it means a lot!
For each person, I am calculating an "outbound influence score", i.e. a measure that tries to assess their overall influence on the group. The leaderboard is a ranking based on this score.
I have made quite a few updates to the product recently. Here is a short recap:
1- Investments.
You can now see where people invested AND who invested in the same startups. E.g. people who share 4 or more investments with MG:
http://gameofangels.com/?root_sc...
2- Unicorns.
Who invested in the current “unicorns”, and who have several unicorns investments?
http://gameofangels.com/?mode=un...
And as mentioned above:
3- Articles they share the most.
It’s a simple way to find out which articles really matter in the tech world - since the curation is done by the top VCs/influencers themselves
In addition, all the maps have their own permalink. So it’s really easy to share them.
I hope you find these updates useful!
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