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Overlapr: Find your Twitter commonalities
Web-apps that utilize the Twitter API are a dime a dozen these days, thanks to the micro-blogging services skyrocketing popularity.Dan Benjamin has just joined the mix with his own creation: Overlapr. Overlapr is an easy way to find out how many followers (or friends) overlap across two Twitter accounts. Enter in two Twitter usernames and you can easily see how many followers they share and with one click, find out how many friends they share as well.
Overlapr is similar to other Twitter apps like DoesFollow, Followerlap and TwitterCompare, but it is unique in that it lets you view the overlap numbers for both followers and friends.
On the main Overlapr page, you can see recent and most popular overlaps, and the results are often hilarious. The results use a smart URL, like http://overlapr.com/friends/film_girl/downloadsquad.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
