Twitter based comment plugin
- Tim Brockman
- @ 10:02 am
Twitter based comments you can embed on almost any site or page seems like a naturally good way to improve the visibility of your content. Every site has share this and bookmark buttons, which is great, but not overly compelling and ignored by the vast majority of your traffic, unless your the stank of linkbait. So I wrote a simple comment plugin for using twitter to post comments and built a quick site for you to download and try said plugin. Along with any instructions etc. you may need to get started. The end result is tweet2comment.tk.
tweet2comment.tk
Sites such as FEARnet.com, HuffingtonPost.com, and a couple others I can't remember off the top of my head make pretty good use of Twitter's data feeds. FEARnet scrolls Tweets directed to its Twitter address and invites you to join the conversation. The result, anytime you tweet a message to @fearnet it scrolls by on FEARnet.com possible prompting others to do the same, while boosting awareness of FEARnet on Twitter.
Tweet2comment follows a similar logic but rather than having a comments scrolling by it features the last X number of tweets in a comment box context. You set the search string for your site or page, this allows you to include hashtags and your pages URL into the thread of the conversation, improving the likelihood of interested tweeps finding your thread, and therefore your page, site, and content.
I hope you love this, it brings you lots of traffic, and you use it in good health. Please let me know what you think. -cheers tim
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hey tim. saw your comment about the shuttle rumbling your underpinnings this morning. how’s life down in the big disney swamp? i lived in miami for a couple years, but am back in little b-town again.
we put a twitterbox in stub’s cornerbarbemidji.com that we built, but he never uses it. we just embedded their crap into our page and it feeds. i don’t like their skin though. i’d like to customize it a bit. i’m going to play with your version..in good health. peace, M
Comment by mitchblessing — April 20, 2010 @ 9:51 am
Hey Mitch! Good to hear from you.. hope that the twitter comments help and life in Bemidji is good. I’ll be there sometime this Summer. We should have coffee or something.
Comment by Tim Brockman — June 26, 2010 @ 10:36 pm