Hive

Hive is a service that can help you find good Twitter accounts by tracking Twitter communities and figuring out who's most important in them. Hive's algorithm presents a ranked list to help you pick who to follow.

Hive is useful for finding popular and active accounts in communities like African Tech, PDX Tech, Peacebuilding, Data Centers, Microbiota and many others. You can explore more than 659 communities, and more are added all the time.

Among other features:

• Visual Community Membership: Hover over an account to see which communities it's a part of.
• Community Rankings: See how important an account is to a particular community.
• Bulk Account Management: Follow, unfollow, mute or block a group of accounts from community lists.
• Feedback Mechanism: Flag problems with rankings for individual accounts.

Hive's algorithm is based on Twitter follow and list graphs, which reflect the relationships between accounts. It doesn't manually score accounts based on engagement metrics like likes, retweets and tweets, but it indexes that data so it can be incorporated in the future.

Hive updates its rankings monthly, and it's designed to cover more Twitter accounts over time. The service makes it clear it doesn't read, access or analyze private Twitter data, and it doesn't sell user data.

The service is available through a web interface and a browser extension called Hivemark that offers some extra features, like seeing user communities and ranks right in Twitter.

Hive is useful for anyone looking to expand their Twitter presence with accounts that are relevant and influential. It's a useful tool for finding and managing your Twitter connections.

Published on June 14, 2024