Comments on: Did Twitter kill commenting?

By: karl

karl — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:19:19 +0000

@chaals

I had written something these lines a few years ago… Sorry it is in French.
http://www.la-grange.net/2006/04/14 – Un commentaire de trop

But somehow it is a distributed architecture around comments and blogs. If we really think about it a comment, a blog post, and a tweet have the same features usually.

an author, a url (or url-fragment), a text, a date.

blog posts have usually in addition a title and sometimes categories.

By: iheni

iheni — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:28:11 +0000

Hi Chaals, you’re not alone in what you say. I was dragged (admittedly by myself) kicking and screaming onto Twitter and not fully convinced it was for me. Now however it has become integral to my job and daily workflow as a Web Evangelist – something that raises a few eyebrows over dinner party conversation (both Twitter and the job title!).
What does concern me is that there is a danger that when ingratiated in Twitter you think that the whole world is there so commenting and sharing through Twitter is a job well done with no need to venture out of the confines of Twitter.
This is far from the truth – as with every social network everyone has their poison and whether you use Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter or any number of them you are still subject to walled gardens.

“Semantic webbery” to track comments around the place is the way to go, it’s just how to do it. And for what it’s worth I think that blogging and commenting are as crucial as ever. These are non password protected, open forums where you can talk and be found via search engines which is important (although both Bing and Google are now starting to index Tweets – a mixed blessing but that’s a whole other topic).

By: chaals

chaals — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:31:20 +0000

Yeah, twitter is quicker and easier. And for straight broadcast (which is what publicity seekers want, and they are an important user of communication technology), it’s probably better in a lot of cases.

I wanted to create a bit of semantic webbery that would track my comments in various places, so instead of having my own blog, I could just give people a way to follow the comments I post around the place. And being able to make it a twitter feed just might be the way to go about it – after all, the cool thing about developing technology is that we don’t quite know what people will do with it.

I use twitter occasionally, for the benefit of people who follow me there. I have no idea (and don’t really care, although I am as curious as an emu so would be happy to know) how much that group overlaps with the people who read my blog. Certainly the content is different – I seem to tweet a handful of times for a particular event, whereas I blog when I have time to think before I write.

Perhaps I will change, and twitter will be the glue that connects my blog comments… Perhaps not. It’s always hard to predict what will really matter to me in areas like this.

By: iheni

iheni — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:31:02 +0000

Using the hash tag so posts can get indexed with tweets is a good idea. I just started doing it recently with #accessiblefry. All we need now is that nifty little aggregator for blog and Twitter comments….

By: Scrambledheads

Scrambledheads — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:54:32 +0000

One solution is to have people use a #hashtag when they “tw-omment” (awful I know) then post those hashtag’d tweets alongside the article (Twitter still isn’t being used by spammers enough to make this an issue – yet)