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by falk 4725 days ago
Awesome, I'm glad your really thinking everything over. To be honest, it wasn't entirely clear to be that you can pick the friends you want to tweet about you. I guess now looking at it that seems rather obvious, haha. It would be really cool to see a recommendation engine, for example, "We think you should ask your friend John Doe to endorse you because he has a massive Twitter following, speaks regularly to companies X, Y, and Z, whom are all hiring. We've analyzed his profile and it looks pretty non-controversial." It's good to see you guys are making use of Twitter and not Facebook. That's a huge selling point for me. Good luck to you guys.
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The first few very, very early prototypes were built because I, then my girlfriend, then some of my closest friends were in the situation where they needed something like this - so I'm quite passionate about making it work :)

That's an amazing idea — we hadn't thought that far ahead yet in terms of NLP stuff, but we can definitely do some amalgamation of Twitter and, say, GitHub data to help you know who to target :)