Bring Twitter comments to your blog
“Classic comments on blogs don’t seam to be enough anymore, online conversation is evolving so much and so fast… so let’s see where’s the conversation and let’s bring it to the blog!” This is what I was thinking when I decided to let people send comments to this blog directly from Twitter. How? Just address your twitter messages @vascellari and they will show up on the sidebar of this site!
Many were interested in bringing Twitter replies on their blogs too so I thought to release this post in which I tell you how this works.
It’s really simple. I used Yahoo Pipes.
Visit this page on which you’ll find the pipe
and then follow the instructions.
1- Insert your Twitter username (as default you will find ‘vascellari’ as username but you can change it and insert yours)
2- Click on ‘Run Pipe’
3- Click on ‘More options’ and get the RSS feed that displays the Twitter replies to (@) the username you inserted
4- Embed the feed in a sidebar of your blog. If you are using wordpress for example you could use an RSS widget.
I burned the RSS feed that I got from yahoo pipes in a new feedburner feed to make more handy to share/subscribe, but of course this is not a ‘must’. Your Twitter replies will be anyway displayed correctly even without a feedburner feed.
Andrea
UPDATE: In case you need a more complete picture of your conversations, Derrick Kwa created an additional version of the pipe that brings you the replies @yourUserName + your Twitter updates. You can get it here. Well done Derrick!
Author: Andrea Vascellari
Andrea Vascellari is the CEO of itive.net. All thoughts and opinions on this blog are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer or clients; neither past or present. If you liked this post feel free to follow him on Twitter, Facebook, or subscribe to this blog.
Nice! Few comments already coming in
http://twitter.com/derrickkwa/statuses/779678045
http://twitter.com/Jyon/statuses/779677836
It’s great to see the conversation spreading across multiple channels
Andrea
Hm. I’m wondering, is there a way to combine the Pipe feed with the feed from my own Twitter timeline? I’ve tried via Pipes, but the sorting doesn’t seem to work. I’d want to do that, for a more complete picture of the conversations.
@Derrick: Check the UPDATE!
@Andrea: How is it different from taking the RSS feed of your vanity search on Tweetscan?
@Guarav: That’s a good question.
I was wondering the same when I was thinking about bringing twitter ‘@ comments’ to my blog… First I simply tested tweetscan but I noticed that some of my normal twitter updates were showing up in the RSS stream ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/vascellari/2403059261/ ). That’s why now I’m using the pipe.