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[balajis]

See here for context on the bounty for an open source tool to export your Twitter following and here for notes on what one possible solution might look like.

Please submit your bounty entry by adding a comment below. Keep your entry as a single comment, and include the following:

1. link to your website or repo
2. example image or video showing the code working on an account

Feel free to edit your comment later if you want, but please don't add more than one comment as spam.

We plan to review this by end of day on June 21, 2020 at 11:59pm PT but may extend the deadline if there are a lot of submissions or unanticipated complexities.

UPDATE: we'll extend this to June 28, 2020 at 11:59pm PT given all the interest.

Update: June 28, 2020 - Review has begun

Wow! Review has begun.

So many awesome submissions by everyone. It will take us a little while to go through them, but we have begun the review process. Please feel free to reply with any questionsl

[balajis]

@MohitKumar1991

I am not proud of how much time I have spent on this by now.

Please be super proud! We have a bunch of volunteers reviewing apps, and @dvd22dvd should have gotten in touch with folks to get their payment info for the honorable mentions. With the Twitter hack your work on this project is more important than ever.

[mohit-sentieo]

@balajis Thanks for the words of encouragement. I did get her email and I have mailed her the new version as well as a heroku hosted version( in case she doesn't have a heroku account). Everything works on local anyways except for affiliate links.

Also I was wondering if you found anyone who is working on the ethereum subscriptions EIP that you shared some time back. Found it to be super interesting. Would love to collaborate on that.

[Trudko]

@balajis @dvd22dvd

Made few changes too:

• Influencer can set own message, which will be seen by followers after clicking invite link.
• Simplified UI bit more, added simple onboard after first login
• fixed several issues in UI

Next plans

• create proper landing page
• improve onboarding process
• support mobile
• improve integration with Substack and Ghost. You can now export followers list to Ghost compatible csv. Would like to support Substack and maybe integrate Ghost Members API (which is experimental for now)
• Add option to turn off Ethereum payouts. Now every follower sees Ethereum address input which is optional. I don't think every influencer wants to payout affiliates.
• thinking about implementing ideas from @balajis talks from Blockstack conference. Let me know what do you think.

[mohit-sentieo]

@balajis @dvd22dvd For the next week, I will be adding the following features requested by some folks who I am trying to get to use this.

• Updating followers every day
• Knowing which followers left, which were newly added
• Knowing which followers changed their descriptions or something else
• Fetching twitter followers for someone else
• Detecting possible fake twitter users (Probably use someone else's model)

Just wondering if you have any comments or specific requirements.

[Trudko]

• we fixed basic responsivity issues, although still need to implement final touches
• building proper landing page
• spoke with John Nolan from Ghost, super friendly super helpful!
• will be adding ability to turn of Ethereum rewards. Score will be still kept so community leader can still decide how to reward community members.
• I want to add local encryption for followers data so if service is run on cloud, your data will be stored encrypted on the server. We need privacy first apps.
• for now we aren't planning new functionality, but rather ask Twitter power users for the feedback and improve what we have right now.

[dvd22dvd]

Hi @daisy1754 @shea256 @snowdot @moesalih @femyeda @kgkrishnavbi @CodeHownd @transitive-bullshit @vasa-develop @treylorswift @martonlanga @plutownium @mrdavey @MohitKumar1991 @neelsomani @ShreyasJothish @socionity @DeveloperRyan @sandeepvellanki @mspanish @brunneis @socexporter @sagardesai90 @npgeorge @JordanDworaczyk @IvanMontillaM @bconnorwhite @steveblackmon @DennisRutjes @gg2001 @thumpri @kanav99 @tksumanth1994 @kira13zyh @petabite @syllogismos @Trudko @charliepyle

Thanks for your submissions! We have completed an initial pass over all the submissions. We'll be doing a final pass over the next couple of weeks. Could you please ensure your services are online till Monday 10th August? Feel free to update your post to make it easy for the reviewer to access everything they'll need. Unfortunately, if we aren't able to access your service, we won't be able to review it.

Finally, if you haven't sent your BTC address to me yet, please do so at twitterexport@protonmail.com Thank you!

cc @balajis

[Trudko]

Quick update:

• much better responsivity on mobile
• we have new landing page
• you can now turn off ethereum payouts, which hides ethereum address for followers too. Useful if you have non crypto based incentives only.
• gathering feedback from multiple possible users, including people who contributed to the bounty
• researched possibilities for data encryption, metamask recently has added ability to encrypt / decrypt data . So far looks good, but UX is still lacking so will wait or have to implement own solution

Next steps:

• add basic filters for followers data
• improve onboarding for people not familiar with the bounty
• improve email verification. Right now it's easy export followers list and upload them to https://kickbox.com/ for verification. It should be up to user what service to use for verification before uploading the list to Ghost

[Trudko]

Few significant updates.

Improved onboarding

• we've added simple onboard which helps Twitter owner with basic settings. It's ongoing work, so we'll update based on customer interviews.

Added email verification

• each follower has to already be follower of the main account and now we added mandatory email verification. We've integrated Postmark, which has great pricing, nice dashboard ofc, it's easy to switch to something else.
• if you referrer someone, you only get points when they verify email and Twitter account

Filtering based on number of followers

• we still use # of followers as a proxy for value of the follower, so now you are able to filter follower based on min. of followers and export only results

Other

• ofc several bug fixes

Next steps

• still focused on getting the basic use case twitter -> export CSV -> ghost / substack import
• started to speaking with several smaller and bigger accounts for a feedback

CC @dvd22dvd

[snowdot]

Hello @balajis, @dvd22dvd,

Please let me know if it still is mandatory to ensure that our services are online. Also, could you please give us an estimated date for the final results?

Thank you in advance!

[Trudko]

Any updates please?

[IvanMontillaM]

Hello,

Is there any updates? We are concerned this hasn't moved on a while.

[snowdot]

Sir @balajis,

We are all programmer here and we need closure (pun intended) regarding this bounty. Is it too much to ask for the results of this considering the hard work that all of us put in?

Also, I'll have to take my application down since I'm paying for hosting it for some months now and there is zero traffic on it which makes me believe that the review is over..

Much appreciated!

[balajis]

Hey folks, we finally got through all the applications. We have a winner and it's socialexporter.com by @moesalih_. Will be putting up an announcement soon. If you have an existing application that was up for a while during evaluation and it cost some money in server costs, send me the receipts at balajis at balajis and I'll see what I can do.

We may also award some (more) runner-up prizes for other folks, in addition to the honoraria we already paid out. @snowdot @IvanMontillaM @Trudko

[syllogismos]

Congrats to the winners @moesalih . It was really fun participating in this competition.

[Trudko]

Great, anyone having a plan to continue work on this?

[ZilvinasKucinskas]

Hey everyone, I am running ExportData.

I already have 200M+ Twitter users in the DB, trends data dated from 2019, lots of tweets, and no performance problems with the infrastructure I have. However, I need help with developing new features.

If somebody wants to continue working with the Twitter API on something a little bit different, hit me up via email (you can find it in my Github profile) and we can chat about it. We might find different collaboration angles - PT or FT work, profit sharing, etc.

What we might work next

• Influencer search (search across 200M+ users by keyword in bio, location, filter users having contact information publicly present, etc..) - similar to FollowerWonk bio search
• Tweet monitoring by hashtag or keyword and their analytics
• Account analytics - something such as Ilo.so
• Displaying top Twitter trends across the globe (current, longest trending, etc..)

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• Frontend: React.JS, MobX
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