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MacPress — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:30:19 -0000

sweet twtter with disqus

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Jan G. Middleton — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:17:52 -0000

Anything Twitter is magnetic. People can't seem to get enough. That's a fact.

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Richard Castera — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:40:05 -0000

Very interesting! I think this is a great idea. I usually find that comments do give you more insight.

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instrumentals — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:26:02 -0000

wow i really found this to be an interesting read; thanks for sharing

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Brian — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:57:02 -0000

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?

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authorityseo — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:25:53 -0000

I didn't think so yet it is mentioned in the blog post

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Nicholas Telford — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:33:56 -0000

We removed the mandatory "@tweetmeme" from tweets months ago. See this post for further details: http://blog.tweetmeme.com/2...

Nick Telford
TweetMeme

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shelia32 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:16:40 -0000

I would like to see DISQUS handle this

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swag — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:55:46 -0000

"Meme" in your company name = FAIL

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melaniekissell — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:08:57 -0000

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.

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Igor Kheifets — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:48:09 -0000

Too many ReTweeting options. I think this is going to make a big mess...

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LeRoy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:19:27 -0000

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.

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drigotti — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:14:23 -0000

Awesome, thanks Nathan. I have a Disqus account, but never knew Twitter was under "Services"... I kept looking in "Notifications." Thanks!

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nickhalstead — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:40:02 -0000

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.

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Bob Dent — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:36:38 -0000

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

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Nathan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:31:51 -0000

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.

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iamkhayyam — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:24:35 -0000

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.

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Dave Rigotti — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:18:59 -0000

How? Do you have to "Sign in with your Twitter" to do so?

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Nathan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:17:17 -0000

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?

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Nathan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:12:18 -0000

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.

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Ahmadism — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:11:42 -0000

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.

http://www.ahmadism.com
http://twitter/ahmadism

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Adam Ostrow — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:00:39 -0000

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 :-)

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nickhalstead — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:59:32 -0000

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/2...