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I made an AI tool for turning blog posts into Twitter threads

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Artificial Intelligence
on June 11, 2023
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    Seems like a great idea, however, its not working for me.

    I'm a getting an error: Something went wrong. Please try again.

    URL is: https://readcaffeine.com/2023/04/sunsama-vs-motion/

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      Think that page takes too long to load. Maybe try a different one.

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    Great work Jake ! I was looking for a thing like this for my website. Now, I'll surely try it to turn my blog posts into twitter threads. Thanks again for this help.

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    Great idea! It keeps throwing an error when I try it: "An error occurred while fetching the content. Please try again."

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      Maybe try a different post. It's not working 100% of the time unfortuanally

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    Nice work Jake! I'll definitely try.

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    Really cool product. Simple and effective to consume. Nice use of AI to generate relevant hash tags.

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    I have some thoughts on this, would you like to hear them?

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        A quick roast website by Demonic design.

        


        The website overall is clean and idea is great as well. However….


There is an effect in psychology called the Doherty Threshold. It means that…
Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait on the other.
People don't like to wait, and you will have to fix that in your product.


I think this is a unique case where you need to change the logic when it comes to user flow. Currently, you provide a link, enter the desired number of tweets, Confirm you choices and then you wait and wait and wait and that is frustrating.

        I would consider small changes.
        I am assuming that process of generation tweets is divided on two parts.

        1. Reading blog post
          2.Creating tweets.


And how should the new process look like?

        I would suggest creating additional steps to go through. The first two steps are obvious:

        1. Article Link - press the "Next" button (in the background, AI can read the article).
        2. Specify the desired number of tweets to generate based on the provided content - press the "Next" button (in the background, the system can generate the tweets).

        Here are the additional steps:

        1. Use a slider labeled "Number of desired hashtags" (this part should work without AI and be used only if someone wants tweets without hashtags) - press the "Next" button .
        2. Use another slider labeled "Number of icons” (similar to the case above, this is only to reduce the number of icons) - press the "Next" button .
        3. Display a confirmation card with with thumbnail and one sentence from the article to verify if it is loaded correctly.
        4. Incorporate an animation created in Lottie. The animation should last 1-2 seconds.

        Between each step, consider adding transitional effects such as fade-in and fade-out, with a minimum delay of 300ms to create a smoother experience. Additionally, include a fake progress bar to give users the perception that something is happening and to reduce the perception of wasted time during the user-controlled process.

        By implementing these changes, users should perceive a more streamlined and engaging process. If you like it please upvote my comment or follow me :)

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          Wow, that's amazing feedback! Thank you 🙏

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    I tested, very nice indeed.

    It might be good to add the url of the blog post in the first tweet?

    Bonus idea: turn a job ad into a Twitter thread :-)
    (Are you the creator?)

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      That's indeed a good idea! And for the job ad, I think it already works. Just add the URL of a job post, and it will turn it into a twitter thread.

      And yes, I'm the creator.

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    I gave it a try and I was really impressed with the result, right down to the hashtags!

    The “how many tweets” through me at first. I think some explanation for this question will be helpful to users like me :)

    Thanks for sharing, really nice!

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      Just posted a demo video on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jake_prins/status/1668883899588517888

      And launched it on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/blogtweet 🍾

      Would appreciate any support :)

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      Cool thanks for the feedback!

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    Great idea. Do you have any plans to iterate upon this product further?

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    I tried it out on one of my medium posts & results are promising. Appreciated.

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    Nice work Jake, I tried it on my last post and got the perfect summary split in threads.

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    tried it but didn't work for me. It's a brilliant idea tho!

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    throws an error saying couldnt generate thread. I was trying to create threads using this link https://www.ekalavyahansaj.com/ekalavya-hansaj/podcasting-agency-platform/

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      OpenAI API gives an error: "This model's maximum context length is 4097 tokens. However, your messages resulted in 4214 tokens. Please reduce the length of the messages."

      I guess the blog post is too long 😅

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        We only post long form, insightful content pieces (3000 words atleast) on our PaaS and SaaS brands.

        We post over 100K long form content pieces every month across all our brand websites.

        My email is ekalavyahansaj@gmail.com and I would love to see if there is anything you can do to make it work.

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    Jake - Tried to test it and been throwing me error. Sadly the thread can't be generated for any of the blog urls I submitted.

    Mind helping me out?

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      Can you tell me which error message you are getting and the URL you try?

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    It would be better without the hashtags added

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      Agree. I just tried the tool and love the result - except for the hashtags. They feel a bit corny to me.

      Would love to have hashtags as an option so you can turn them off :)

      Other than that - really nice tool. Gave it a spin with my latest blog post and the result is quite good.

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      Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to tweak the AI or add it as an option.

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