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Thanks for the information! I didn't know that about Mercola or I wouldn't have posted in the first place. I should have done some background research though. It seemed like he was talking about a genuine contradiction that I thought was troubling.

I'm wondering why a file upload dialog opens up when I click in the empty area beside the 'redo' button in the demo (FF 19). Is it just me?

I just got mine 3 days ago with 256 MB RAM.. now I'm wishing it had been delayed.

As a developer, I would love to see this get more traction. I really would.

It's really painful working with Twitter now. Twitter's display 'requirements' and other aspects of the API are super restrictive after their latest update.

However, the sad truth is that the population of Twitter users isn't going to be shifting anywhere else anytime soon. Most users hardly care about the 'openness' of the platform. I imagine the best way for a competitor to succeed would be by allowing users to cross post statuses to Twitter.. but Twitter API restrictions would kick in there too!

Some features of the website:

- I've used an exponential decay similar to the one used in HN, except much faster in decaying.

- Only tweets from today are shown.

- The rating of a tweet is determined by 2 factors: the number of retweets and the votes on TweetFad (retweets have a much smaller weight compared to votes).

- Users can add their content by simply including the hashtag '#TwtFad' in their tweets. To submit tweets to a particular category, the users can add #[category_name].

- For each category, I've added some influential twitter accounts and hashtags to monitor for tweets. These are automatically added to the listing if they have a retweet count greater than a threshold.

I would love to hear the comments and suggestions of the HN community. I'm a long time reader of HN, and this community has helped me learn a lot I would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone here!