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March 15, 2010

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.

twitter comments embed for any web page

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

August 26, 2009

Twitter is becoming a major interface for media giants, businesses of all sizes, celebrities, even wrestlers. If you want your company’s account flexing its off shirts and grappling your audience into submission, these tools can help. HootSuite 2.0 CoTweet TweetDeck Twitterrific 2.1 Twitterrific In the cage-match of Twitter, Twitterrific is the squirrely lightweight somersaulting off …continue reading…

August 17, 2009

This week I spent some time submitting sites to ye ole W3 validator. Usually this is a quick process of adding the occasionally missed alt in my img tags and amp;s to my &’s but every once in a while I stumble onto something I can’t fix. The standard addThis buttons will validate fine but …continue reading…

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