As Twitter becomes the default conversation spot on the Web, we’re going to start to see tools which combine site-specific conversations with Twitter. One example is Tweetboard, which creates a Twitter-powered forum for any site. Once a site adds the Tweetboard code to their site, a site-wide tab appears which allows visitors to have forum discussions by simply logging into Twitter (via OAuth). All the conversations are threaded, and comments appear on Twitter as well, potentially drawing in a larger audience into the specific conversation.
One of the difficulties of following a conversation on Twitter itself is that replies to particular threads aren’t threaded together. On Tweetboard, all the discussions are threaded and nested together, similar to what you’d find on FriendFeed or Facebook. Site publishers can choose to set up a Tweetboard using their personal Twitter accounts or create a new one specific to each Tweetboard.
Packaging conversations and presenting them in a forum place extends any particular site’s forum content to the Twitterverse. The next step is to turn Tweetboard into a commenting system for blog posts and the like. Right now it works only as a site-wide tab, but developer Juan Carlos Muriente says he is working on another version which will be page-specific and could be used as a commenting system. (Of course, Disqus already Tweets out comments for anyone who logs in with their Twitter ID).
Tweetboard is the first project to come out of Muriente’s startup 140ware, and is currently in open alpha.
I’m starting to be a believer in Twitter, I had always though FB would defeat it
in reference to this, facebook just launched the live stream box last week
Another case showing how well the WAVE team has concepted (since they implemented all these possibilities into their information age cockpit). I’m really keen on finding out what “territories” will shift in what way later this year.
I’m really looking forward to seeing Google Wave as well.
Integrating blog comments directly to Twitter is a cool idea, but would stifle any meaningful discussion with its 140 character limit. Maybe it could work as an option to traditional commenting, but Google Wave seems much more flexible.
Great idea and good implementation.
Needs a little work in terms of the ability to delete spammy tweets etc but overall – briiliant bi directional conversations ftw
Thanks! This feature is on the way, probably this week will be available.
Actually, this feature will be rolled out tonight.
brilliant
This is a great service, very innovative. Twitter is doing something Facebook can’t do due to it’s privacy settings (which are overly complicated): it’s making the internet more accessible, which is a win for everyone. Tweetboard is a great example of that.
Btw just a FYI. Juan Carlos Muriente was also the founder of vBSEO, the leading SEO plugin for vBulletin (which I’ve used previously when I was running the official community site for the game, Alan Wake).
He’s done some amazing work and I was suprised to find out he was behind Tweetboard.
another company that will probably make money from twitter aside from twitter.
Just saw the review, I like the threaded conversation
Just installed on http://www.lucafiligheddu.com. I like it so far, great job.
Well, actually removed… very (VERY!) slow… I’ll put it back as soon as they will improve their capacity
How are you going to find out about their improved capacity?
Hello Luca, are you experiencing slow loadtimes on http://tweetboard.com too? We have not received reports of it being slow, in fact I think this is the first one I read.
Our server is holding up good so far, with loads maxing at .5 for the moment. But certainly, at the massive rate of installs so far, I do expect us having to add more hardware very soon.
Note: If you re-attempt installation, make sure you add the code *above* any other 3rd party (external) tracking services, such as Google Analytics.
Try out related site http://tweetknot.com which is actually much better and cooler
Facebook live stream is the same thing but for Facebook launched recently. I’m looking for something that combines the two. Like Flock Connect or something?
This is really wonderful application for all twitter users on web or any blog
Just installed on my free dating site http://www.europeankiss.org
Great work guys!
‘Twitter becomes the default conversation spot on the Web’ – pardon? Which web is this? Most Twitter ‘users’ barely use the site at all – http://societre...to-perspective/ – and all this service does it make an even bigger mess of the already primitive public Twitter stream.
Tweets need to be threaded together *at the root level* (i.e. by Twitter themselves) if public conversations are to ever make any sense to observers. Following half a conversation is never pleasant, and you shouldn’t have to go to a third party app just to make the service half-usable.
Why has the specification of the tweet remained unchanged since 2006?! 140 characters is ridiculous and unnecessary, @replies and #hashtags are merely popular conventions (not standards), and the whole thing falls over any time more than about 2% of the userbase dare to post a tweet.
Google Wave is poised to significantly beat Twitter to a pulp – it’s a better product by 100 times, it’s scalable and open source, and it has a big brand behind it, with hundreds of millions of existing account holders that can just start using it as soon as it is released.
Plus, nobody understand it.
The same could have been said about Facebook when people slowly started moving there from MySpace.
Wave is positioned for what? To become publicly useable 2 years from now? Twitter could take everything it knows about Wave and become that before google even releases something to the public. Wave’s got a really long journey.
Sorry, I heard it was to be released before the end of the year. Do you know otherwise?
Tweetboard looks helpful, but I think I’m actually going to stick with Twitter and it’s API…and my customized solution to feed Tweets to sites.
Aw, why spend the half-hour required to write this yourself when you can have another logo and fourth-party dependency on your site?
Note the stories today blaming ad networks for site failures in response to Michael Jackson’s passing.
OK, that was weird. Some caching issues on the TC side causing posts not to appear? Ironic in spite of my comment, to say the least.
what ever happened to twittezen?
I was thinking the same thing. TC why no compare/contrast with Tweetizen on this? They were the first in this space.
pretty neat..just installed on my blog aggregation site http://www.bloggerunited.com
great work
Super cool!!!
http://www.instasocial.com is another way to stream filtered tweets on your site.
VKS thx for the spam of a closed beta.