#“Introducing "Curation by Me" - A simple tool to filter Twitter Lists”
Sometimes you have to stop blogging and you have to start coding to scratch a persistent intellectual itch. Last week I said I needed self-curated news for the Irish General Election. This week I have it.
Curation by Me is an incredibly simple tool I lashed together (using the Programming by Google Search method) over the past two nights. It takes the URL of a Twitter list and a hashtag/keyword to provide you with a filtered list of tweets.
By default it shows a simple list I made of Irish politics related tweets and shows those tagged with the #ge11 hashtag (used to identify Irish Election tweets):
Here's an example using Suzy Byrne's list of Irish Election Candidates filtered by the word "Martin" to show those tweets mentioning the name of the new leader of Fianna Fáil:
But of course it's not just for politics; any list or filter can be used. The only proviso is that you have to login with your Twitter account to use it, due to Twitter rate limiting.
Maybe I'm the only person on the planet who needs Curation by Me. Even if I am, the itch has been scratched. Would love your feedback, problem reports, thoughts and suggestions.