Saving Twitter Conversations

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Earlier today, I asked for help with saving Twitter conversations to my blog. Quite a few people responded (including a few programmers). I’ll be interested in seeing what develops, but I’m also happy to show you that @whozman helped me generate the following thread based on who responded to my two general queries…

wampy: i use twitter mainly from my phone…would love to see a client that lets me forward single tweets or conversations to email
about 3 hours ago
Yardboy: I actually played around with that a bit but not all clients populate the “in response to status” field on a post to twitter.
about 4 hours ago
areyouscreening: I think that already exists actually… Maybe it’s a WP plugin I’m thinking of though
about 5 hours ago
five: That wouldn’t be hard to do using the Twitter API.
about 5 hours ago
gurubrandon: I’m all over hat. I think that would be awesome. But.. I think it might already be done.
about 5 hours ago
gotham158: Yah that would be pretty cool, be cool to integrate it with google reader too.
about 5 hours ago
brewstermax: Go for it.
about 5 hours ago
FreddyGipson: While it is cool you’re developing this, why not make it open source? That way many other bloggers may use it too.
about 5 hours ago
dhiraj: I’m already using sweetcron for this. What did you have in mind? A wordpress plugin? http://lifestream.dhirajgupta.com
about 5 hours ago
vikc: check out http://bostontweet.com He is doing something similar to that Twitter service you speak of.
about 5 hours ago
mattbremer: cool idea! PockeTwit for WinMo has a show conversation mode that lists all related tweets so it’s possible via twitter API.
about 5 hours ago
geekyjenn: Love that idea!
about 5 hours ago
raymondpirouz: lol…Tweetmitt? Baseball mitt w/a little birdie in it? ;)
about 5 hours ago
boom8088: Now that would be a cool program! I hope you’ll let me know when it’s up and running… :)
about 5 hours ago
Shih_Wei: It is unfortunate that many great convos taking place on Twitter couldn’t be better preserved for followup or reference.
about 5 hours ago
seb86: That can be done easily using there API. I might do one for Wordress. Great idea.
about 5 hours ago
Digital_Puddin: that would be an awesome app Chris I would love to contribute to that as well
about 5 hours ago
TracyRenee: nice one, i just wish i were more technical to help you :)
about 5 hours ago
sdreinhart1975: very easy… just need to generate a twitter originated feed… maybe add “save to blog” buttons and generate an RSS sub to
about 5 hours ago
uknowirock: Start developing……
about 5 hours ago
themachack: that is the first tweet that you have done without spamming, well done and happy birthday.
about 5 hours ago
James_W: Maybe you could work with a new API
about 5 hours ago
PassTheBoll: I would like that, too. Even a service that just easily displays conversations. the @Replies menu doesn’t work that well.
about 2 hours ago
lhamil64: Could it be done with RSS?
about 3 hours ago
r3dnax3la: yay you joined me in the Beats by Dre club w00t :D
about 4 hours ago
mrichman: Does twitter have an api to get all responses to a single tweet?
about 4 hours ago
jdntx: you could start a #cp hashtag or something like it and have a bot search for and post all tweets with that tag.
about 4 hours ago
butterflymeaway: I wish I could sort my tweets/tweeple so it would be easier to follow conversations better. Or is that already possible?
about 4 hours ago
gmdclark: Almost possible: the problem is lack of reply-threading, and tweet a bunch Chris.
about 4 hours ago
dustinson: I’ve thought that a nice FishBone diagram for the conversations and time lines would be nice.
about 5 hours ago
sfallows: why can’t I find any good documentation for your wicketpixie theme
about 5 hours ago
joanikin: just learned that your Twitter profile is worth $7,000 http://tweetvalue.com/
about 5 hours ago
Obscura: Have another look at Friendfeed?
about 5 hours ago
chriscasper: WordPress integration?
about 5 hours ago
pgbkruit: The only problem with that is that you’ll never know who responded to what.
about 5 hours ago
calebh: that would be awesome
about 5 hours ago
husanioakley: that’s a good idea. what blog software do you use?
about 5 hours ago
englishinvader: Don’t we all dude. Don’t we all.
about 5 hours ago
gfranks: That would be AWESOME!
about 5 hours ago
sswayze: yeah, threading would be great… is it possible to use your rss feed somehow… thinking outside the bun always helps me :)
about 5 hours ago

I’ve given him some initial feedback, but it only took a few tweaks (and additions to my CSS) to make it look picture perfect. I’ve needed this for such a long time; I’ll finally be able to generate a full post based on responses.