Show HN: Beak – Measures how "smart" your tweets are (Featured on Product Hunt)
beakscore.comHi HN,
I built this on July 4th, while pondering what effect Twitter has on modern day communication.
It analyzes the grade level of a Twitter account by using a modified version of the SMOG readability index and tells you your "smartest" and "un-smartest" tweets. Beak also tells you how you rank vs other Tweeters. There's also a leaderboard.
This was a fun day project for me and I'd really appreciate any feedback, comments, and suggestions.
Thanks, jl
Interesting. My "smartest" and "un-smartest" tweets together give an oddly accurate picture of me.
Smartest (grade level 17.1): Am I a bad man for buying Pepperidge Farms Holiday Entertaining Cookies (repeatedly!) even though I shall do no holiday entertaining?
Un-smartest (grade level 3.1): THERE IS A MOTHER FUCKING LIZARD IN MY MOTHER FUCKING HOUSE!
Didn't seem to work so well for me. "Good news - float textures have arrived in iOS 8 beta 3 WebGL" doesn't seem all that 'um-smart'
Interesting - TIME.com cloned this idea today without referring to Beak . I suppose it could have been a coincidence though? http://time.com/2958650/twitter-reading-level/
hey thanks for the catch! added some sanitization on the input.