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There’s no doubt about it. Twitter really does come into its own with hashtag events. Twittering the first Dragon’s Den reminded me of student days sitting on a couch and spinning crappy daytime TV into comedy gold with a bunch of mates. It really enhances the experience.

I see the issue of speed as par for the course. And I also see it as a huge opportunity. If you become the de facto expert on squeezing efficiency from this number crunching routine. You’ve got the kind of value that made summize an acquisition target.

All-in-all Twission has got me excited. I think your onto a real winner here. And I’m only too glad to say so. Fair play man.

The inspiration for building Twission came from watching events like Obama’s inauguration, Dragon’s Den, and other TV shows that people live blogged on Twitter using the hashtag convention (#obama09, #ddire, etc.).

Twitter comes into it’s own during events like these. And more often then not I’d be more entertained by what was coming through on the Twitter feed then I would be with the actual TV content.

But as this activity becomes more popular (and if Twitter usage is anything to go by, it’s going to be huge), it becomes less relevant to you as your own network of friends get drowned out by the crowd.

Twission tries to fix this issue by filtering the search results based on your own Twitter network. It’s not a perfect execution because like you said, it is a little slow. This is because of the sheer number crunching involved in calculating the degrees of separation between you and the people in the results. But I’m working on making the whole thing faster and more reliable.

I’ve also got some further ideas about enhancing the filters and giving more control to the user.

Finally, a big thanks for helping to get the word out, I really appreciate it Niall. I’ve had more then 300 new visitors since you wrote this up so it definitely helped to spark the interest of the community.

re: Relevant media delivered through trust networks…
Yes we must organise time to for a chat. Ping me with a date and we’ll grab some lunch.

re: Twission
I just learned about it myself yesterday. I’ve been standing back from the firehose for a while now. I was nice to dip back in a find this wee treat when I did. Its the latest from Iarfhlaith of Webstrong.

I wasn’t familiar with Twission, so I will take a look, as the problem you highlight is the big problem of our time.

I have another view as to how to bring the best and most relevant content to the top - based on your trust network - so we must catch up to discuss