With Twitter rolling out its own retweet functionality soon, people will be pointing their followers to more users they may not be engaging with yet, which will spark users to follow more people and hence increase the amount of conversations on Twitter. At least, that’s what I think.
But Twitter has never been an ideal two-way conversation tool. It’s hard to keep track of back-and-forth communication between users, particularly when you’re not actually part of the discussion but still interested to know what’s being said tweeted. A new tool called Bettween aims to make it easier to visualize conversations between two specific users as well as share them with others.
Like most Twitter-related web apps, the tool is simple and crisp. You enter the usernames of two Twitter users and you get an overview of what they’ve conversed about on a single page, with an indication of when the tweets were published and who replied to whom. And because it comes with a dedicated URL Ă la bettween.com/arrington/craignewmark, you can easily share conversations between two users with others as well.
I’m left wondering if it would be possible (and/or desirable) to tweak the tool so it could track conversations between more than two users.
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what i am desperately looking for is a tool allowing me to track any answer (@/RT) to a specific tweet spotted on my stream or on twitter search.
Bettween would be more useful if they could allow me to just input the URL of a tweet and track the conversation around it
check out this: bit.ly/2mZ8is
correct link: http://bit.ly/2mZ8is
It tracks conversations by URL or status ID
Looks interesting. Any improvements are welcome. Waiting for them to make it available to all of us regular folks !
I think it’s a pretty good service, not only for searching conversations but being able to easily share it, that’s a differentiation from other services right there.
I like how the technology seems to be ahead of the users. What I mean is that I don’t think many people are wanting this feature yet cause they don’t use or even think of Twitter in this way. You think of people answering your questions by @yourname, but trying to follow a conversation between two other people? Guess, I may just need to follow smarter and more interesting people and this would have come up by now.
Cool tool!
Great service, awful UI!
This does look really interesting! Can’t wait to check it out.
Wow, this service is slow. It has to index every tweet for each user in order to find conversations, which makes sense I supose, but it takes up to 5 minutes and when I tried it the request eventually failed. Unless they can do this in a few seconds without “abusing twitter” (their words), I don’t see people using it much.
I think thats is really a good thing. This will provide more inter personal conversations.
Turning Twitter into a conversational platform IS the future value of the platform. Both for Users and Brands.
It has been a severe shortcoming so far and bizarre that SEESMIC and TWEETDECK aren’t taking the lead here (or, TWITTER themselves, who don’t seem interested in taking the lead anywhere).
Great to see BETTWEEN taking a stab at it. Great work.
But, Users will want to control their own conversations more easily, not just be voyeurs to Other people’s conversations. Brands will want to have more control over conversations with customers on a one on one basis…
So did you get that birthday gift or what?
Okay. Here’s a shortcoming.
I wanna track conversations between 2 people that I follow. One person has protected tweets. Therefore, this service doesn’t work.
If I can see the protected tweets on Twitter, it would be great if I could see them here. After all, Twitter doesn’t give the functionality for tracking conversations between users.
A suggestion for the future, kids. Buena suerte!
Sorry, but why can’t you just use twitter search on keywords “@arrington AND @craignewmark”? you can still share the URL.
agree with improving the conversational nature of twitter, but this is not a great leap forward.
and the site is still reading through my tweets as i write this. very slow.