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Plugin beta test: Social Comments,or how I will take over your twitters!
Written in Frisco, TX on March 9, 2010 and tagged with plugins and twitter.
11 Comments, 9 Tweets, why not add one?
So yeah, I have a new plugin I want to get some testing on, called Social Comments.
The plugin is in its most basic form at the moment, but it allows you to login to the site with your twitter account, and any comments you make will be posted to your twitter account as tweets. Eventually I will also support Facebook, but for now I am focusing on a service I actually use.
Currently in development is a system that allows you to choose whether to tweet your comments or not, but right now I am interested in making sure the tweeting system is rawk solid, so no choice for you!
Oh and some of you might be wondering why I am building this, when services like Disqus exist. Disqus is a find product, but call me crazy, I already have a commenting system, why would I supplant it completely with a service that hosts that content offsite?
It doesn’t feel right that I don’t have ownership over that content. I am willing to accept this could be an issue I have that most other people don’t. Cool, then there will be one very happy webbie in the world :)
Please leave feedback here or on twitter, @chrisjdavis me if you have a question or suggestion!
If you post about this on Twitter, please use the hashtag #silly895.
@matthewmaber, on March, 9 2010
@loudestnoise, on March, 9 2010
@mandaj, on March, 9 2010
@chrisjdavis, on March, 9 2010
@matthewmaber, on March, 10 2010
@chrisjdavis, on March, 10 2010
@matthewmaber, on March, 10 2010
@chrisjdavis, on March, 10 2010
@matthewmaber, on March, 10 2010
matthewmaber, on March 9, 2010
loudestnoise, on March 9, 2010
Coolness, Social Commenting, werd!
mandaj, on March 9, 2010
This is a really awesome plugin and I can’t think of anywhere else that I have seen it! Will the option of not showing the comments duplicated be available? If so I would totally rock this plugin.
Chris J. Davis, on March 9, 2010
@mandaj,
Yeah the next version of the plugin will handle the duplicate problem. Right now the two areas are powered by different code. I will be pulling both pieces of code into the same plugin which should fix the issue.
matthewmaber, on March 10, 2010
It’d be nice if the avatar was the proper Twitter avatar, linked to that persons twitter account and also if there was a link to the tweet which that comment made. Is that possible?
Chris J. Davis, on March 10, 2010
Yes, I think that is more than possible. I am also looking into how to have a combined view of social+blog comments.
Chris J. Davis, on March 10, 2010
Heh yes indeed there is. The system currently works by creating an account for you when you on this site when you login via Twitter oAuth. I have yet to work in any error handling for when the account that is created through this process conflicts with an account on this site.
Since when I started this little test there was only one account on the site, namely mine, it wasn’t a big deal. The problem is that all my account names are the same on the old interwebs, so I can’t associate twitter with this site yet.
Fixing that soon :)
matthewmaber, on March 10, 2010
@chrisjdavis Ahh, I see, never spotted that Twitter button. Nice. Youre searching Twitter for this hashtag I assume -> #silly895
Chris J. Davis, on March 10, 2010
Indeed. I am hitting the search API for the hashtag of this post and displaying those tweets inline. Any comment that is made a tweet from the site automagically has the hashtag appended, as well as a link back to this article, so it all works out.
Peter Dremstrup, on March 11, 2010
How do you face the problem of the 140-character limit?
Chris J. Davis, on March 11, 2010
@Peter,
The plugin that powers the social comments limits what is sent to twitter to 100 charactes, leaving room for the hash tag and link back to the article.
lookign forwards to giving this a go myself. Nice one Chris