Thursday
Oct292009
Testing new Twitter tool
Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 9:05 PM
I got an alpha invite for a new Twitter app called Tweetboard that does a couple of things:
- It surfaces my Twitter feed onto my personal site. To date, I haven't found a clean way to pull in Twitter feeds into my platform so this is a half-step in that direction. The Tweetboard window sits to the left side of my site, hidden under a "tweets" tab. Click on the tab and it opens up an adjustible screen. Click on the tab again and you close the screen. Voila!
- It also introduces the ability to host nested Twitter discussions within my site. I don't get enough traffic or comments yet to probably justify that feature but we'll give it a try anyway.
The Tweetboard tool itself was simple to install: Just had to slap some javascript onto my templates and tweak a few things. Took all of a few minutes.
The video above is a review of Tweetboard. It's kinda over the top, but highlights the general features.
Lemme know what you think, or better yet, toss a few posts in there to see what happens.
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