Also, per the twitter developer guidelines, you need to parse the tweets and make all links, hash tags, and usernames hyperlinks back to twitter for those individual items.

I recently had to do a similar thing for a site I threw together to get my sporting news in one location (http://sportszealots.com). It's very hacky code written very quickly (in ruby), but if you'd like it send me an email and I'll send you back what I have.

EDIT: Well damn, I didn't know about the handy utility mentioned below...that's definitely better solution!

They offer a ruby version as well: https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text-rb

Robin,

Nice, simple idea - solid MVP. Good use case for text processing too because the domain of candidate phrases, patterns you are looking for is relatively small :)

Here are UX some suggestions:

-It will require some effort, but you should try to surface companies as tags if you can. Will be a popular feature...We did this at my last startup Tracked.com and it was a really popular. You can start by getting a list of companies via Crunchbase API and then use that set to do the entity extraction.

-Same as above, but for programming language keywords

-Show timestamps of Tweets (you've heard this a lot)

-Make links hypertext (you've heard this a lot)

Thanks,

@mileslennon

Nice. You need to linkify the tweets so users don't need to copy and paste the URLs to the actual job posts.

Agreed. Luckily Twitter makes it really easy: https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text-js

Thanks! This is even easier than asking on stack overflow!

Looks useful to me! I would like to see when the tweet was made, a link to the actual tweet, and the option to change location/filter by keyword.

Edit: I see that you can already change location. Well done!

Thanks. Yep you can change the loc but maybe I need to make it more obvious.

Better filtering is high on the priorities. As for the dates on the tweets. I'm only holding 6 days worth at the moment, I think I'll break them up by Today/Yesterday/Older in future. Otherwise it'll be too easy to miss new tweets maybe not at your exact location. Better linking or a summary pane is on the list as well.

Thanks for taking the time to look and comment.

It is useful and is something I'll keep an eye on if any roles come up.

One suggestion - a hide and/or mark as spam button would be useful. I noticed a "work from home" spam job appear in the listings which stuck out compared to the other tweets. A hide button would be useful to make jobs that I've applied for/are not interested in.

If I search for 'clojure' none of the links have Clojure in them. Does it only search for location or can you search for keywords?

it's great. can i get an rss feed for my city?

very useful.

good stuff. you should always be tweaking.

best of luck