Facebook does it, the news app News.me does, and Google does it. Based on your use of the services, they look at the information that you find interesting to determine what the next time they should show. The methods by which they determine are somewhat murky. Relevance is a new iPhone app that learns which messages from your Twitter timeline and Facebook news feed are important to you. The application gets that way the noise from your social networks and also lays out nicely how those decisions are made.
The idea is that your Facebook and / or Twitter to Relevance links, so the app can show messages from both networks. It does so on a virtual stack of paper, each sheet from the screen where you can swipe to the next message. The stack consists of messages from both networks together. The order of placement makes no much difference: Messages of 22 minutes, an hour or 5 minutes ago are sometimes suddenly together. With the dog-ear the bottom right you can choose how old the oldest messages are, from 1 hour to 7 days maximum. You can also specify how much time you want to spend up to read.
This is the algorithm that the app learns from your behavior has not been explained. That is to be read in the App Store description. It consists of three points. First he looks at the overlap of individuals between Twitter and Facebook: people you follow on both networks, you will find very interesting and probably why you get them to see many messages. Second, the app looks at the popularity of the authors and the number of retweets, likes and comments on a post. The third comes from the app itself. The app looks at what messages you leave and how much time you spend on certain individuals and messages. You can easily make the app by hand to indicate whether more or less of an author to read, and if you post back later to see if it is boring. You do this by sending a message to the right slowly sweeping. Before the sheet out of the picture, you see a bar with the options before the bottom. Unfortunately it is very difficult to use those buttons.
The sweeping system also ensures that messages you've already had another can not recover. Annoying? It is certainly getting used to. The app also does a few things very well: messages load quickly and left it right away if you often get the message preview below to see where you only need to tap them, fast, full picture. With a bar next to the donkey ear at the bottom you can also Facebook messages quickly with a like or response. You can also read the comments and the message through e-mail or Twitter. Twitter messages can answer, retweeting and favorites.
Relevance will soon also support for Google Reader, Tumblr and quickly advancing in the East VKontakte. It is hoped that thus the system for feedback on the messages more accessible - manually before you ruin your whole field of interest.
Download: Relevance (free) here:
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