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		<title>Did Twitter kill commenting?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of video killed the radio star I&#8217;ve been wondering recently if commenting on blogs has taken a bit of a hit and if Twitter is to blame. It seems that I&#8217;m not the only one as Christian Heilmann also talked about the demise of commenting in his post on measuring evangelism (and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the spirit of <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtHEmVjVw8">video killed the radio star</a> I&#8217;ve been wondering recently if commenting on blogs has taken a bit of a hit and if Twitter is to blame. It seems that I&#8217;m not the only one as Christian Heilmann also talked about the demise of commenting in his post <a href="http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/12/17/on-measuring-evangelism-success/">on measuring evangelism</a> (and yes, I&#8217;m a Web Evangelist too but for <a href="http://dev.opera.com/">Opera</a>).</p>
<p>Quite often when I blog I Tweet about it and get lots of lovely feedback via Twitter but not so much on my blog. Feedback of any sort is great but I kind of wish that it was on the blog so others could read and comment on it too.</p>
<p>So, dare I ask, has Twitter  killed commenting?</p>
<p><strong>Update 29 June, 2009: </strong>As some sort of compensation <a href="http://chatcatcher.com/">Comment Catcher</a> has come to the rescue. This is a handy plugin for all blogging platforms that allows you to capture comments linking to your blog from Twitter, Friendfeed and Identi.ca. Not a bad alternative when trying to keep an eye on everything. That said, you need to keep an eye on what it publishes otherwise you get a long list of retweets which doesn&#8217;t make for great reading so it&#8217;s worth deleting them and keeping bone fide comments in tweets only.</p>
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