Follow Twitter Conversations

Create a bookmarklet that will allow you to follow twitter conversations

Post Information
- Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008 Time: 10:11 am Discussion: View Comments Category: Announcements Tags: bookmarklet, Twitter Print this blog post!

Quotably by Ben Tucker is dead, so much we know. Tweader.com by HubSpot, Inc. let’s you follow a single conversation – if you know the ID number of that tweet.

So here is what I do:

I first click on a timestamp of an interesting tweet or (potential) part of a conversation. That should bring up the single tweet, with the browser location bar showing something like http://twitter.com/thinkstorm/status/1014699828

I created a “bookmarklet”: drag and drop me onto your link bar or right-click and select ‘bookmark this link/location’.

If I am on my single tweet and click on this newly created bookmark, It will try and follow that conversation on tweader.com. If you’re on any other page or twitter decided again to change some stuff around, it will simply do nothing.

A problem with tweader is that it will only search for conversations and tweets *before* the single tweet you were looking at, not at anything that will happen afterwards. So you will see the conversation up to the point where you clicked, but nothing afterwards: http://tweader.com/conversation.php?id=1014703963 will show you that jpitkin actually wrote a response, which the previous link above didn’t show. This is not really nice, and twitter should have conversations by default, but I understand that this is not an easy problem to solve, as all posts would schlepp along some additional conversation ID then, and posting from SMS would be hard… well, it’s free, and maybe someone comes up with a cool mashup – let me know!

2 Responses

You can follow the comments for this article with the RSS 2.0 feed.

Hi there, really enjoying your style – good to have you in the blogosphere – you aren’t just talkin to yourself!

1 dontloseyourhair November 26, 2008 12:33 pm

Check twitalks
twitalks.com

2 felipe August 30, 2009 4:30 pm

blog comments powered by Disqus

Content © Playout Intelligence
Proudly powered by WordPress
Theme designed by Artisan Themes

Entries (RSS)
Comments (RSS)

31 queries.
0.535 seconds.

This Playout Intelligence blog post by Thorsten Claus is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

All entries in this blog are my opinion and don't necessarily reflect the opinion of my employer or sponsors.

Except where stated, all materials contained in this Web site are the copyrighted property of Thinkstorm. Permission is granted to use, copy and distribute these materials as presented in this Web site for personal, non-commercial use only. All copyright and other notices must appear in all copies as they appear in the original. All other uses are prohibited. (please also see these two articles about “All Rights Reserved” and general copyright law, with some focus on the US).

This site contains links to other sites that are not owned or maintained by Thinkstorm. These links are provided for your convenience. Thinkstorm makes no warranties about the contents of or products and services offered by such sites.

Thinkstorm shall not be liable for any injury, claim or damage whether direct or indirect which arises out of the use of this site or its contents or the inability to use this site. Thinkstorm shall not be liable for any injury, claim or damage whether direct or indirect which arises from the unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmission unless it results from the gross negligence or intentional actions of Thinkstorm.

Playout Intelligence