Novel Integration: Twitter-powered comments

You’re seeing it more and more: on blogs and new sites and even search results: twitter is being integrated, either via hashtags or simple a particular user’s tweets.

@dsandler has a bright idea: why not institute something for a particular blog post as a commenting tool. People have tried using digg or reddit but this execution holds the promise of something truly different. It works something like this:

You come up with some sort of naming convention (in his example he simply used the tinyurl for the post, as most people would be including that anyway)

Then, at the bottom of each post, you include search results for all tweets which include that tinyurl.

When you consider that you can include that link in a URL like so and twitter search results are easy to integrate, making such an idea a reality is not hard.

I think it’s all well and good that you can put your blog on your facebook and twitter from google reader and whatever else, but I think this kind of idea is what makes the web such an interesting place to be.

Experimental: Twitter for comments

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