I’m experimenting with the general idea of implementing comments sections powered by twitter commenters rather than the usual comment system. If you could, reply to the tweet of this post on Twitter and let’s see if your tweets show up, yeah?
I won’t actually be replacing my own comments– this is just a test to explore the plugins related to it, and to see how they display.
My story “Groob’s Stupid Grubs,” a story of a goblin’s hopes for his idiot children, is available in Black Gate 15.
I recently finished the first draft of a YA novel called Takedown Notice set in the net-mage universe of my stories “Captain Blood’s B00ty” and “One Click Banishment.” What happens when the Magical Association of Atlantis finally gets the upper hand against the net mages in the spell program copyfight?
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@jeremiahtolbert Twitter to replace WordPress Comments sounds like an interesting idea, Jeremy. How does it work?
@jeremiahtolbert interesting! Be cool if it works. :)
@jeremiahtolbert Did you just tweet at yourself? That’s… That’s… That’s so awesome I think I’m having a psychotic break contemplating it
@jeremiahtolbert yeah Jeremy, how does it work?
@jeremiahtolbert Interesting idea, does it completely replace internal commenting with Twitter, or just add it as an option?
@JLeuze right now, I’m just testing it as a supplement. I want to see eventually if it can replace entirely.
@jeremiahtolbert weird… Very curious how this will work out…
@jeremiahtolbert Do you think using twitter would help encourage more conversation at certain blogs?
@amysundberg I think the idea is that it’ll keep conversations in some places a bit more civil. I don’t know that it encourages real convo.
@jeremiahtolbert I don’t know. I mean, “shut up ur a fag” is way fewer than 140 characters, & is often the level of discourse in comments…
@inkhaven are you more likely or less likely to make said comment when tied to your own twitter account?
@jeremiahtolbert AH good point. (I am personally NEVER likely to make that comment!) :)
@jeremiahtolbert It’s an interesting experiment. Looking forward to seeing the results.
@jeremiahtolbert (I know you didn’t mean me. It was just uncomfortable even typing that for illustrative purposes. Ew.)
@inkhaven I know :)
As a supplement, fine, but what about comments that are longer that Twitter’s limit? I know part of what makes comments interactive for me is the possibility of conversations taking place in the comments, instead of one blog post over here responding to a blog-post over there.
Also, how does one respond to this via twitter? (cleary, this is left in the comment field on your blog, not twitter.)
Don’t replace comments, por favor. I have no intention of using Twitter. And if I did, it’d be like telling me to go load up Facebook to make a comment on your blog, y’know?
Also, I think it’d work better if the plugin removed Twitterisms. The comment display doesn’t need every single post to start with @jeremiahtolbert. :)
Visually, it’s very appealing to see all the avatars and the way the comments string together.