Note: The tweet uses: http://is.gd/eGo2 for the link to this blog post. The link was created using the PeopleBrowsr client's URL shortner.
John
Elliot
· 10 months ago
Now this is cool!!!, great idea!, why cant I think of things like this?;))
KyNam Doan
· 10 months ago
Thanks Dan! You're just a font of valuable knowledge and tools. I tweeted this page, so it should show up in the tweetbacks :)
Lisa Creech Bledsoe
· 10 months ago
Nicely done! I'll be curious to watch the adoption curve, and hear what people say about functionality.
KyNam Doan
· 10 months ago
FYI, I tweeted it with bit.ly and it's not showing up. You're going to get a huge spike in traffic with this. Are you ready for it? :P
Marshall Kirkpatrick
· 10 months ago
That's a whole lot of screen that took up, though it does look good. My fantasy version of this script would start out collapsed, showing just the most recent and would allow blacklisting of certain twitter usernames. We get a lot of bots retweeting our stuff, for example.
David Hobson
· 10 months ago
Now this is a very good idea.
@toddlucier
· 10 months ago
Dan, it would be really nice if the avatar linked directly to the Twitter home page of the tweetback poster. Since you already see the content of the tweet, there is no real value in linking to the original tweet url.
Congrats on a nice script.
ZK@Internet Marketing Blog
· 10 months ago
Great idea, waiting for the script
Chris Kovac
· 10 months ago
Hi Dan,
What a cool tool. I'll be playing around with it this week. Thanks for sharing!
Anna
· 10 months ago
I tried it and couldn't get the tweetbacks to show. What is the refresh rate? Or is it that there are so many people trying it at once?
Dan Zarrella
· 10 months ago
@ana and anyone else who tried this and had it not work, i had to fix a mistake i made, but it should work now
matt lambert
· 10 months ago
Very impressive. cool. No, wait....stunning. It must make a fantastic case study for you too :-)
Matt
Penelope Else
· 10 months ago
Looks so interesting! You have a very different mind.
If only I could install it without Wordpress stripping it out! Am I doing something wrong, trying to put it in the wrong place? (Tried to put it in the Text/HTML box they provide).
Pen
Dan Zarrella
· 10 months ago
@penelope you have to put it in your template
Josh
· 10 months ago
Hey Dan,
this is genius. I'm trying to implement it on my blog. At best, I'm a cut and paste coder, so I'm trying to figure where in my blog (hosted, wordpress) I should put the script. I tried putting it in the CSS file, didn't work. I tried putting it in the comments template, didn't work.
Any thoughts?
Josh
· 10 months ago
Also, my templates are php, so I'm thinking I might need to know more than what I currently do to make this work.
If you have any thoughts, it'd be greatly appreciated. Hell of a great idea.
Catfish SEO
· 10 months ago
I gotta hand it to you man. Nice job on this one. This rocks.
J. D. Ebberly
· 10 months ago
This is an AMAZING innovation!! Wow, I can hardly wait to try it out! You're a genius! Thanks!
T
· 10 months ago
WOW! - Fantastic! Will most certainly be giving you a donation - excellent work!
Lambday
· 10 months ago
great job, man.
Alexander
· 10 months ago
Excellent idea, only with so much tweets the page loads kind of slow, a possible solution would be to show X amount a tweetbacks per page, kind of like comments on WordPress 2.7.
Great work!
Daniel Marashlian
· 10 months ago
Hey Dan, great idea here! Though I put it on our blog, http://blog.pelotonics.com and it seemed to SLOW down the load of the page. Also, it would say like, "10 Tweetbacks" but nothing would show, or one one of our blog posts, it said, "4 Tweetbacks" and only 1 showed.
Any ideas? thanks!!! Daniel
Ryan @ Linkbuildr
· 10 months ago
Dan...amazing idea. This will help bring a good amount of freshness to my blog and I look forward in seeing if it has any traffic potential. Keep up the great work mate.
bla
· 10 months ago
I think the URL should be automatically erased from the "tweetback". It would make the tweet cleaner.
Matt McGee
· 10 months ago
Great idea, Dan, and thanks for doing it.
If you're taking requests, Marshall's idea above about blocking users is smart. I'd also recommend an option to not show avatars. (Think how MyBlogLog lets you block avatars from showing in their widget.) I'm sure some Twitter users have avatars that I'd rather not see on my blogs. :-)
Shinil Payamal
· 10 months ago
Hi Dan,
First of all, belated Happy New Year wishes!
You have got a great idea and sure is awesome. People should definitely try it. And yes, I think some people have a valid point with regards to switching off the Twitter avatars.
Very cool! I made my first ever online donation to a developer, and threw it on my site.
As others have noted, not all the RTs are getting picked up from the differet services. There is another service out there called ChatCatcher that I'd tried to implement, you may want to check that out as well, perhaps that would save some of the heavy lifting to implement other shorteners? (they also had a nice feature where you could exclude certain users, as Marshall mentioned).
oh yeah and I forgot to mention that too: it shows 2 tweetbacks but says there are 8.. but there are also 6 comments on the page. Is there some funky math going on there?
Miriam Schwab
· 10 months ago
The future (and present, actually) of the social web will involve coordinating all of our various activities. I'm always on the lookout for ways to automate that cooperation, and this is a brilliant contribution.
Todd Wickersty
· 10 months ago
Thanks for tweetbacks. It's awesome. I installed it this morning, and while the number of tweetbacks is displaying, the specific tweets underneath are not.
Tweetbacks is a great idea. I too am having the same issue as Todd W. Number of tweets being displayed but nothing else.
Maria
· 10 months ago
I have the same problem as Daniel (comment #26) in that it says 3 Tweetbacks but only shows one. Also, page load is VERY slow, which is preventing my page from drawing within a reasonable amount of time. Is the slow speed due to everyone hitting your server? If that's the case, why not release a plugin version or some other version that doesn't suck your server resources?
Otherwise, great idea. Would love to see it fully functional on my site.
Jeremy HIlton
· 10 months ago
Everyone should download the javascript for this code and host on your website. The file is loading slow fron Dan's site and is causing the lag issues that alot of people are mentioning.
Simply load http://danzarrella.com/tbjs.php in a browser. You can copy the source into your favorite text editor, save and upload.
I'm guessing that Dan's bandwidth bill won't mind.
Jeremy HIlton
· 10 months ago
I stand corrected on my last post.
I'll post something in a few that you peeps can download.
Tony Maro
· 10 months ago
Cool tool, but way too slow to be usable (no doubt your site is suffering) why not release the PHP that enables this so people can use their own server bandwidth?
Jeremy: Yeah, that's not gonna work bud - you'll need the PHP source code, or write your own based on his concept. The PHP file generates the javascript for you based on the referrer URL.
JointWinWin
· 10 months ago
Innovative and imaginative Dan.
Kudos.
Rachel Cunliffe
· 10 months ago
Hi Dan,
Thanks so much for taking my idea and making it reality :D I'd love to work with you more on making this into a Wordpress plugin and some of the options I talked about. Please email me if you are keen.
Cheers Rachel
feir
· 10 months ago
Soooo Cooooool.
Ryan
· 10 months ago
I always thought Twitter could replace comment systems on blogs and stuff! Such should reduce trolling!
This looks like a step in that direction. I wonder if you plan on adding a link to show Tweetback conversations amongst followers (i.e. johnny links to X, then follower sue says great post & RT) and making each Twitterer who appears on a blog linkable back to their acct?
Obviously a lot can be done here and overall the possibilities of what Twitter can be used for and applied to is boundless.
Jeremy HIlton
· 10 months ago
Peeps.
I've written a downloadable version of Dan's brilliant idea, called TweetBackRedux that works on PHP enabled servers.
* It caches URL shortener api calls for efficiency * There is only support for TinyURL, Bit.ly, and is.gd. * The Twitter search API is not case sensitive. URL shorteners are. This version removes invalid tweetbacks that makes their way into results due to this difference.
Installation instructions are contained with the source as well as my Twitter handle. Hit me up with any questions, I'll do my best to answer, but can't guarantee that I will.
I'm already working on version 0.3, which will have an uber-easy to use javascript micro-templating system to allow for complete control over the styling of TweetBacks.
Look for it in the couple of days.
Wendy Piersall
· 10 months ago
A few months ago I hunted around on Twitter trying to find a developer that would write this exact plugin for me. I was willing to pay for it and would have even released it for free, I was so desperate to have the functionality on my site.
Thanks Dan!
John L
· 10 months ago
This is great! It will come in very handy on my blog!
Michael A. Stelzner
· 10 months ago
Anyway you can release the code so we can access the script without placing a load on your server??
Mike
omtv
· 10 months ago
how did you do that?
Joanna Young
· 10 months ago
Great idea - love seeing the tweets (and people!) who've referenced this post. Thanks!
TechMata
· 10 months ago
Just wondering if this is compatible with blogger...
Eivind M.
· 10 months ago
POSSIBLE BUG:
Hi! Thanks for a great plugin! I've installed it on my wordpress blog, and it seems to work like a charm - except for here:
It lists 98 tweetbacks, but none of them are actually pointing to my site.
Have no clue what's wrong, but maybe you can look at it.
Best regards, Eivind M.
scorpfromhell
· 10 months ago
Excellent! In the true spirit of sharing, why don't you release this under an open source license (we can discuss on which one)? Also, you could put the js on google code & ask it to be linked from there.
Chad B
· 10 months ago
Great Idea - but doesn't seem to work with Bit.ly. TinyURL worked great though....
Dan Hollings
· 10 months ago
Nice idea, nice implementation. Find Tweetbacks, Votr, and 200 additional Twitter tips and Twitter tools on MyTwitter Toolbar for Mac or PC. http://mytwittertoolbar.com
Julian Schrader
· 10 months ago
I've been meaning to build this myself some time ago — thanks for actually getting it done! :-)
Ryan
· 10 months ago
Testing this now on my blog. Tweeted about one of my blog posts today and nothing showed up. A separate Twitter account automatically sent out a tweet about the same post today as well, and that one showed up fine. Is there a delay? Do all tweets not show up?
Livecrunch
· 10 months ago
That's great post i Like it a lot. By the way let me know if you have any more updates would be glad to feature you on Livecrunch check About LC page :)
Ilias
· 10 months ago
That's great.. I'll test it on my blog soon..
MY STADY
· 10 months ago
Dude, just out of courtesy I'm not installing this. You're going to hit your bandwidth limit VERY soon. Also, PayPal is evil.
I agree with all those suggesting to code this beauty as a WordPress plugin.
Rudy De Waele
· 10 months ago
Great job, Dan! This is a really cool WP plugin - see my twitter followers already experimenting with it too :)
Matt Singley
· 10 months ago
Brilliant! Best WP Plugin I've seen in ages! Thanks so much.
manuscrypts
· 10 months ago
awesome stuff.. implemented too.. now, how about one for friendfeed and google reader? (sorry for the greed :D )
Keane
· 10 months ago
Nice plugin! My only comment is whether or not you can limit the number of tweetbacks shown. Like in this post with 150 something tweets it took me a while to scroll to the bottom... Pagination possibly?
Robert Kaiser
· 10 months ago
I just don't like very much that this must run as client-side script and not server-side like TrackBack and the much superior PingBack. But then, I'm also no big friend of the vendor lock-in we're seeing with the whole twitter system, so maybe I shouldn't care?
Jen @ Eco-Office Gals
· 10 months ago
I get this error in the bottom of my posts when some tweets the post. Anyone have any thoughts?
WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry 'http://twitter.com/teresamorrow/statuses/1136595224' for key 2] insert into wp_tweetbacks (postID, datetime, tweet, author, link, avatar) values (807, 1232577001, 'RT @EcoOfficeGals: http://tinyurl.com/9hyajx Green Options: Web Hosting', 'teresamorrow', 'http://twitter.com/teresamorrow/statuses/1136595224', 'http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/69898913/Teresa_pic1_normal.JPG')
Judith VanAlphen
· 10 months ago
Not sure how either twitter or twitter backs work.
Jorge Pablos
· 10 months ago
Hi Dan, first let me tell you this is a nice plugin, congrats!
I just included the JS file in the Blog of our company Website (We don't have Wordpress so the Tweetsuite is not an option for now), trying to style the output I noticed that the markup generated by your JS file is opening-closing the unordered list that should contains the entries and leaving the actual entries out like this:
2 Total TweetBacks:
It displays OK, don't know if this is on purpose, just wanted to let you know in case is not, cheers!
I just got a butt-load (as in 150+) of tweetbacks with none of them referring to my site - they all mention snipurl.com not my site.
Jonathan Blundell
· 9 months ago
Just got a repeat of the above situation. All showing up as comments under the same one or two posts. And all tweets from the same user with only a link to snipurl.com
liza
· 7 months ago
can you include Ping.FM in your list of url shorteners? am definitely going to try this out.
zedomax
· 2 months ago
Interesting, is TweetBack getting you more traffic? I don't see it used here anymore, did you stop using it?
darla aka Alrady40
· 2 weeks ago
Came by because i needeed to update my background. Love you page.. .just sent a retweet!
All Comments
Congrats.
BTW, why dont you release the scripts ?
Are we allowed to save and host the script on our hosts ?
Beta Feedback: looks like my TweetBack didn't get picked up. http://twitter.com/johnfairley/status/1099676734
Note: The tweet uses: http://is.gd/eGo2 for the link to this blog post. The link was created using the PeopleBrowsr client's URL shortner.
John
Congrats on a nice script.
What a cool tool. I'll be playing around with it this week. Thanks for sharing!
Matt
If only I could install it without Wordpress stripping it out! Am I doing something wrong, trying to put it in the wrong place? (Tried to put it in the Text/HTML box they provide).
Pen
this is genius. I'm trying to implement it on my blog. At best, I'm a cut and paste coder, so I'm trying to figure where in my blog (hosted, wordpress) I should put the script. I tried putting it in the CSS file, didn't work. I tried putting it in the comments template, didn't work.
Any thoughts?
If you have any thoughts, it'd be greatly appreciated. Hell of a great idea.
Great work!
Any ideas?
thanks!!!
Daniel
If you're taking requests, Marshall's idea above about blocking users is smart. I'd also recommend an option to not show avatars. (Think how MyBlogLog lets you block avatars from showing in their widget.) I'm sure some Twitter users have avatars that I'd rather not see on my blogs. :-)
First of all, belated Happy New Year wishes!
You have got a great idea and sure is awesome. People should definitely try it. And yes, I think some people have a valid point with regards to switching off the Twitter avatars.
Best Wishes,
Shinil.
@shinils on Twitter - http://twitter.com/shinils
As others have noted, not all the RTs are getting picked up from the differet services. There is another service out there called ChatCatcher that I'd tried to implement, you may want to check that out as well, perhaps that would save some of the heavy lifting to implement other shorteners? (they also had a nice feature where you could exclude certain users, as Marshall mentioned).
I have both set up here: http://www.afhill.com/blog/social-media/twitter...
You can see it here: http://tumblelog.wick.me/post/68559188/david-le...
I implemented the WP plugin at http://blog.soulcreation.com.
Otherwise, great idea. Would love to see it fully functional on my site.
Simply load http://danzarrella.com/tbjs.php in a browser. You can copy the source into your favorite text editor, save and upload.
I'm guessing that Dan's bandwidth bill won't mind.
I'll post something in a few that you peeps can download.
Jeremy: Yeah, that's not gonna work bud - you'll need the PHP source code, or write your own based on his concept. The PHP file generates the javascript for you based on the referrer URL.
Kudos.
Thanks so much for taking my idea and making it reality :D I'd love to work with you more on making this into a Wordpress plugin and some of the options I talked about. Please email me if you are keen.
Cheers
Rachel
This looks like a step in that direction. I wonder if you plan on adding a link to show Tweetback conversations amongst followers (i.e. johnny links to X, then follower sue says great post & RT) and making each Twitterer who appears on a blog linkable back to their acct?
Obviously a lot can be done here and overall the possibilities of what Twitter can be used for and applied to is boundless.
I've written a downloadable version of Dan's brilliant idea, called TweetBackRedux that works on PHP enabled servers.
http://assets.mindcomet.net/jeremyhilton/
Please note a few things about this version.
* It caches URL shortener api calls for efficiency
* There is only support for TinyURL, Bit.ly, and is.gd.
* The Twitter search API is not case sensitive. URL shorteners are. This version removes invalid tweetbacks that makes their way into results due to this difference.
Installation instructions are contained with the source as well as my Twitter handle. Hit me up with any questions, I'll do my best to answer, but can't guarantee that I will.
I'm already working on version 0.3, which will have an uber-easy to use javascript micro-templating system to allow for complete control over the styling of TweetBacks.
Look for it in the couple of days.
Thanks Dan!
Mike
Hi! Thanks for a great plugin! I've installed it on my wordpress blog, and it seems to work like a charm - except for here:
http://www.marienblogg.no/2009/01/08/barnevakt-...
It lists 98 tweetbacks, but none of them are actually pointing to my site.
Have no clue what's wrong, but maybe you can look at it.
Best regards,
Eivind M.
I think it's time to woo investors.
Downloadable version available at http://quakbak.com
But then, I'm also no big friend of the vendor lock-in we're seeing with the whole twitter system, so maybe I shouldn't care?
WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry 'http://twitter.com/teresamorrow/statuses/1136595224' for key 2]
insert into wp_tweetbacks (postID, datetime, tweet, author, link, avatar) values (807, 1232577001, 'RT @EcoOfficeGals: http://tinyurl.com/9hyajx Green Options: Web Hosting', 'teresamorrow', 'http://twitter.com/teresamorrow/statuses/1136595224', 'http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/69898913/Teresa_pic1_normal.JPG')
I just included the JS file in the Blog of our company Website (We don't have Wordpress so the Tweetsuite is not an option for now), trying to style the output I noticed that the markup generated by your JS file is opening-closing the unordered list that should contains the entries and leaving the actual entries out like this:
2 Total TweetBacks:
It displays OK, don't know if this is on purpose, just wanted to let you know in case is not, cheers!
<script src=\"http://danzarrella.com/tb.js\"></script>
<div id=\"tweetbacks\">
2 Total TweetBacks:
<ul></ul>
<li ...> ... </li>
<li ...> ... </li>
</div>
</div>
am definitely going to try this out.