Instacurate

Instacurate

Turn your Twitter timeline into a personalised news site

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What do you think? …

Ryan Gilbert
@davidbauer What inspired you to make this and what are your future plans with it?
David Bauer
@_ryangilbert It was sort of my self-imposed «graduation project» from Code Year that I did in 2012. I challenged myself to build something that was beyond my skills, hoping to acquire them as I go along. And Instacurate was the sort of product I personally wanted to have, so I went for it. What's more, curation is one aspect of journalism I'm particularly interested in and after starting a newsletter for hand-curated content (www.weeklyfilet.com), I thought it would be interesting to try automated curation, based on signals people already gave elsewhere (by following others on Twitter). What's next for Instacurate? It's been on standby for some time – I still use it, as do others – but there has been no development recently for a lack of time. That being said, there are still a couple of features I'd like to implement, so let's see...
David Bauer
If you're more of a reddit person than a Twitter person, there's Instacurate for reddit, too. http://www.instacurate.com/s/red...
Jon Lax
We tried to do this a number of years ago with TweetMag