DISQUS

Will · 10 months ago

I bet Mahalo wishes they had beaten Seth Godin to the punch with this. This type of feature that would slot in perfectly with Mahalo Answers. Now if they add a similar product, people will just view it as a knock-off...But Mahalo can do one better by allowing people to offer cash rewards.

Let's see how long it takes for Mahalo Answers to launch their own version of this.

Adam Ostrow · 10 months ago

@Will yea, was thinking the same thing ... imagine Mahalo Answers will do similar soon

jaysontcote.com · 10 months ago

Brilliant ! I was thinking of coding an application that did something similar. I think this will be huge for marketers and consultants to really engage with their tweeples. It will be interesting to see the how this Squidoo app effects lens traffic scores.

Steve Poland · 10 months ago

I had a similar idea. I think it's brilliant. The only thing missing is the ability for users to input >140char responses as answers.

Trin · 10 months ago

Tweeted about it! Wow, great tool!

Nicole Simon · 10 months ago

Content creation for them - yes. But on which grounds? Did you agree on being pulled in with your tweets?

And how would you feel ending up with your tweets on a squidoo page just because you used a specific hash tag?

MiMi · 10 months ago

Excellent idea from Squidoo. Kudos!

Joe Spencer · 10 months ago

Sounds like a great online Q&A application. Lets participate!

Roo · 10 months ago

@ Nicole Simon - I really don't think any twitter user will object to their tweets being pulled as content for squidoo, it would be kind of like bloggers objecting to people using their RSS feeds!

I really like the way squidoo have done this, they have been working promoting and interacting with twitter for a while now and the twttrstrm pages are a great way of doing a lot of things a lot of people have wanted for a while! The ability to simply monetize a page and share the revenue with squidoo as well is definitely an added bonus for tweeters.

Nicole Simon · 10 months ago

@roo ahem yes, that is the point. besides there being an ethical side to it - so you dont mind that i put up your tweets up on my porn side as an example for a typical customer, right? - there is a legal side to it. you might want to brush up on the topic of copyright and permissions to use your content.

without my permission you cannot use the content of my website without compensation and you try and scrape my content of my blogs. I can waive these rights to a certain degree, but that is about it. you cannot use content without prior consent, period. even the american concept of fair use is something very specific, and tweets are no different to that.

Jayson · 10 months ago

@ Nicole Simon - I do agree with you that many scenarios require permission of use of content from your own copyrighted material. Although in the discussion, as a twitter subscriber and most other content driven social networks, the subscriber must agree to the providers's website terms of use and privacy policy. In this case Twitter clearly states:

"The Twitter service makes it possible to post images and text hosted on Twitter to outside websites. This use is accepted (and even encouraged!). However, pages on other websites which display data hosted on Twitter.com must provide a link back to Twitter."

Therefore aggregating tweets to squidoo is not a violation or infringement upon anyone's content posted to twitter.

You may want to brush up on the topic of agreeing to terms of use and privacy policies when subscribing to a website.

Andrew · 10 months ago

Ah, interesting. I admit I haven't used Twitter before. So just to make a point, you CANNOT place an answer on a 'TwttrStrm' lens if you aren't a member of Twitter. It sends you to Twitter.com to login.

Mutt · 10 months ago

I love Yahoo Answers! It's awesome!!!!

Dwight Gies · 4 months ago

This isn't working for me. I've tried a couple of times to ask a question and build a twttrstrm page, but nothing happens. Just a blank blue screen. I'll find a more intuitive way to get info.