As already mentioned; decent blog comments are usually far more than 140 characters, which makes the whole idea a bit pointless. - unless commenters put a title totheir comment; and then that could be tweeted.
'Sounds like too much hassle to me: I don't see this idea taking off.
Indy
· 3 months ago
Is it still going to use the 140 character count? Will it retweet just as a link to the comments or the actual comments? Cause I can't see blog comments staying at 140 chars...erh, case in point, this one.
I guess it's a good feature, but I like disqus.
Adam Ostrow
· 3 months ago
it seems it'll be a combo of text and link ... which, would be hard to make as retweetable as say a good story headline and a link.
Dave Rigotti
· 3 months ago
About time. Pushing my comment to Twitter is a great way to do subtle marketing for your site and definitely thinkg Disqus, Techcrunch, Digg, and other major tech sites should have already integrated this.
Nathan
· 3 months ago
Disqus has already implemented Twitter integration. EDIT: What I meant to say was -- you can push comments to Twitter with Disqus. You can't retweet them from within Disqus, though.
Dave Rigotti
· 3 months ago
How? Do you have to "Sign in with your Twitter" to do so?
Nathan
· 3 months ago
You need to have an account on Disqus.com and be signed in. Once you have created a Disqus account, go to Account > Services and sign into Twitter with OAuth. After you've done all that, try commenting here. You should see a checkbox below the comment box saying something like "Tweet this comment as @___ (your Twitter handle)". They've made it pretty painless.
drigotti
· 3 months ago
Awesome, thanks Nathan. I have a Disqus account, but never knew Twitter was under "Services"... I kept looking in "Notifications." Thanks!
Nick Halstead
· 3 months ago
Just to clarify a few points,
1) The comments are left on the TweetMeme site, when you view a story you are able to leave a comment against that story. A blog 'could' use our API to then replicate the functionality but we will leave that for 3rd party developers, or other commenting platforms to leverage. 2) Our comments can be as long as you like, when they go to twitter they appear as a short excerpt and a link which is a unique URL that represents that comment, that URL can then also be retweeted.
Adam Ostrow
· 3 months ago
thanks Nick ... tried to make that clear but added a little bit of clarification. I found the API prospects the most exciting, hence that angle :-)
Nathan
· 3 months ago
So, do you anticipate the same kind of outcry that Shyfter got, back when people worried that they would "move the conversation" away from individual blogs and onto their own site? -- It sounds like this is way better for blog owners, since they will be able to use the API to display relevant Tweetmeme comments on their own site. Am I understanding this right?
nickhalstead
· 3 months ago
I dont anticipate any outcry, as we are only doing what Digg/Mixx/Reddit do - and allow people to leave comments in reference to a story link, you have to go to the blog/news/image/whatever to read the story, you then come back (if you want) and can leave comments. We purely want to build a community that is active on TweetMeme itself. And by getting further retweets of comments, we then hope that the story itself gets further coverage.
So definitely better for blog owners, as we hope to drive them more traffic. What people do with our API is up to the developers.
iamkhayyam
· 3 months ago
This screams of desperation! Expanding to be too much when you could have been just enough.
I'm holding out for Disqus v3 which is out next week.
#deathtotweetmeme
nickhalstead
· 3 months ago
We are not trying to be a replacement comment system for blogs. The comments occur on TweetMeme. If Disqus or others want to aggregate our comments into their stream of comments like they do for Twitter/Friendfeed more the better. This post is a little miss-leading on our purpose - go read our post here and you will understand http://blog.tweetmeme.com/2009/08/19/comments-a...
iamkhayyam
· 3 months ago
This post does allude to a replacement or solution to a commenting system that is retweetable. Thank you for the link to the blog to better elaborate.
Now, this is my question to you... do you force feed your @ name on every retweet of a comment as well?! So you'll get your big @ name with a brief excerpt of the comment with a link to the actual comment, right? So I'll probably get to see 115 chars of the actual comment, a link and your real estate that you command, ya?
In my opinion (which isn't worth much) the fact that you hijack tweets and have been doing so for this long to gain 'brand recognition' is dastardly at best. I always thought you had to earn it? Guess blindsiding and giving no option to your end user works as well. You've accomplished your greatness. How does it feel?
And for that reason I will forever be frowning upon your service, albeit a fantastic one. Wish you the best in your success and your abilities to adapt to your environment.
I didn't think so yet it is mentioned in the blog post
The Ahmadism
· 3 months ago
I have to agree with the feedback that some comments are better than the post/article itself. I find that especially true with online news sources like the NYT, etc. And perhaps even more so with political and/or controversial issues (naturally). As a blogger, I'm looking forward to this.
No. I don't like this feauture. Twitter is full now with nonsense automated messages. And this is very annoying trend. I preffer people talk, not automated repeated messages. That's why I use now http://gloggy.com. That's my opinion
LeRoy
· 3 months ago
I am just excited to finally see all of Disqus v3 (http://disqus.com/v3/) then we can talk about retweet additions.
I personally don't know if I would retweet comments all that much. I think it may be trying to cram too much into a tweet.
Igor Kheifets
· 3 months ago
Too many ReTweeting options. I think this is going to make a big mess...
melaniekissell
· 3 months ago
I support this notion 110%! I've read some exemplary blog comments on many an occasion and wished I could somehow send them out to be shared.
swag
· 3 months ago
"Meme" in your company name = FAIL
Brian
· 3 months ago
I'm starting a service called Double-ReTweet CommentMeme Beta - not sure what it does yet, but surely people will get excited for it, yeah?
instrumentals
· 3 months ago
wow i really found this to be an interesting read; thanks for sharing
Richard Castera
· 3 months ago
Very interesting! I think this is a great idea. I usually find that comments do give you more insight.
Jan G. Middleton
· 2 months ago
Anything Twitter is magnetic. People can't seem to get enough. That's a fact.
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'Sounds like too much hassle to me: I don't see this idea taking off.
I guess it's a good feature, but I like disqus.
1) The comments are left on the TweetMeme site, when you view a story you are able to leave a comment against that story. A blog 'could' use our API to then replicate the functionality but we will leave that for 3rd party developers, or other commenting platforms to leverage.
2) Our comments can be as long as you like, when they go to twitter they appear as a short excerpt and a link which is a unique URL that represents that comment, that URL can then also be retweeted.
So definitely better for blog owners, as we hope to drive them more traffic. What people do with our API is up to the developers.
I'm holding out for Disqus v3 which is out next week.
#deathtotweetmeme
Now, this is my question to you... do you force feed your @ name on every retweet of a comment as well?! So you'll get your big @ name with a brief excerpt of the comment with a link to the actual comment, right? So I'll probably get to see 115 chars of the actual comment, a link and your real estate that you command, ya?
In my opinion (which isn't worth much) the fact that you hijack tweets and have been doing so for this long to gain 'brand recognition' is dastardly at best. I always thought you had to earn it? Guess blindsiding and giving no option to your end user works as well. You've accomplished your greatness. How does it feel?
And for that reason I will forever be frowning upon your service, albeit a fantastic one. Wish you the best in your success and your abilities to adapt to your environment.
Nick Telford
TweetMeme
http://www.ahmadism.com
http://twitter/ahmadism
That's my opinion
I personally don't know if I would retweet comments all that much. I think it may be trying to cram too much into a tweet.