How to Track and Extract Replies on Twitter
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I’ve been blogging since January of 2002, and the archives are still there. Years later, I’ve begun to participate in other places, such as Twitter. Sometimes, I get excellent replies on Twitter, and I wanted a way to be able to extract those replies for my blog. I tweeted about ten days ago that I was looking for a way to do this. Alex, otherwise known as Whozman on Twitter, pinged me to ask what exactly I wanted. And now, without further ado, I introduce you to Twickie!
It honestly is simple. Log in and get a list of your 50 most recent tweets. Or, you can find a specific tweet of yours, and enter the ID number (in red at the end of the twee URL) into the box under the Search tab. Once your replies are display, you can click the Get @ button… and voila! The code is displayed for you. Copy the CSS, HTML or “Full” code and paste it into your blog. If you’re not very familiar with either CSS or HTML, then copy the “Full” code. It will place everything for you on your blog page with nothing additional needed from you!
You can get an idea of how this looks. Earlier today, I tweeted about my favorite Weird Al song. I then took all of those @ replies and extracted them using Twickie. I then created a blog post using that information. How cool looking is that? It’s so easy, and takes literally only minutes. You don’t have to be a code genius to figure it out, even!
That’s pretty much the bottom line. You can now quickly and easily incorporate Twitter responses into your blog. Bwana has done it, as well as Robert Scoble. Why dont you give it a try?
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8 Comments
Outsanity
February 14th, 2009
at 1:15am
This is a great web app for bloggers and Twitter users. I wonder if there will be an AIR app for this.
Aryeh Goretsky
February 14th, 2009
at 2:36am
Hello,
I understand that you have an API for accessing Twitter, but was wondering if you had considered using SSL on the Twickie web site to help prevent eavesdropping between the user’s web browser and Twickie?
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
Stanley Tang
February 14th, 2009
at 5:33am
THANK YOU! I’ve been looking for this for months (I conduct tons of polls on Twitter and put them in my blog post)
I’ve always done it the hard way by doing it manually (back then it was fine when I had little followers and little replies) but now that I have over 12,000 and get 30-40 replies, it’s becoming harder and harder.
This is a super time saver. Thanks Chris :)
Stanley Tang
http://www.twitter.com/stanleytang
joelg88
February 16th, 2009
at 3:16pm
That is great. Now the community can be even more involved now by having opinions and input included in the blog posts for others to see.
Ariyen
February 19th, 2009
at 10:39pm
Nice.
A friend, who’s on twitter, has done the same to his blog/website.
TheHenry
February 27th, 2009
at 7:49pm
I love Twickie! It was a great idea! Thanks a bunch Chris!
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March 1st, 2009
at 5:35pm
[...] greatly used for shouting out one-to-many, and as Robert Scoble pointed out, Chris Pirillo’s new tool, Twickie, is great for crowdsourcing [...]
Ugly
April 13th, 2009
at 3:59pm
So… what is this Twitter thing? I take it that it’s for twits or something so maybe I should know about it.
Still…. I have no idea.