A recent blog post of Oliver Reichenstein “Kill Blog Comments?” stirred up some interesting discussions on twitter.
The most interesting issue would be how to track those comments on twitter, Olivier’s initial tweet “New blog post: Kill Blog Comments? http://tinyurl.com/dhpg8k” had as a matter of identification only the tinyurl.
Tracking replies and comments would require that each comment would either be an reply to @iA in a specific timeframe (impractical as you may have replies to other @iA tweets) either should mention that tinyurl, so
you can search it.
A hashtag would be better suited for this purpose, Oliver tried to use #3 (quite ambiguous and twitter search doesn’t yield any results). I tried to use the longer hashtag derived from the blog post URL #kill-the-blog-comments and again the twitter search doesn’t like it, too long? dashes?
How to create an unambiguous hashtag? I took the tinyurl for the post http://tinyurl.com/dhpg8k and used the path as a hashtag #dhpg8k, it works but tinyurl is one of the hundreds of URL shortners; it would be the author responsibility to issue an unambiguous hashtag for a trackable conversation.
Ideally twitter search should be able to search in ‘expanded tinyurls’ (regardless of the shortner implementation, just dereference…) such that a search for http://informationarchitects.jp/kill-the-blog-comments/ would yield results containing http://tinyurl.com/dhpg8k, http://bit.ly/YN7pw, etc.
Moreover to ease aggregation on the blog post that is commented, Twitter should try to use trackback whenever somebody posts a link to a trackback enabled resource.
Please comment on Twitter, using hashtag #d3se8y derived from the tinyurl for this post http://tinyurl.com/d3se8y.
See the comments by searching #d3se8y.
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