Comments for Twitter Reactions: See What Twitter is Saying About Any Website

Twitter Reactions: See What Twitter is Saying About Any Website

2010-02-08T17:50:59Z

Last September, Google launched Sidewiki, a Web annotation service that makes it easy to annotate any page on the Internet. Sidewiki, however, hasn't attracted a lot of users yet and the public discussion about online content continues to happen in comments and on Twitter.

While it's easy to browse comments, finding Twitter mentions of a specific article can be hard. With the Twitter Reactions Chrome extension, however, you can see quickly see what Twitter is saying about a given page without every having to leave the site.

]]> Sadly, Twitter Reactions doesn't apply any filters to the tweets it displays, so you often end up with long lists of retweeted links. Twitter Reactions uses the BackTweets API to aggregate messages. The extension would be even more useful if it used a service like BackType, which does a good job at filtering out the most boring tweets.

Unlike similar projects like Arc90's TBuzz bookmarklet, the extension doesn't connect to your own Twitter account, so you can't tweet and retweet from within the extension.

While it doesn't offer any advanced features, Twitter Reactions is a quick and easy way to see what the twittersphere is saying about any site. If you are not using Chrome, also give TBuzz a try.

[via Lifehacker]

Comment from Mark Cunningham Hypnosis Seminars on 2010-08-20

2010-08-20T20:59:23Z

Twitter is becoming an important social media platform that can drive business to facebook and web sites for big increases in traffic. Something that will help to monitor and sort that traffic will be useful to all of us.

Comment from Fibromyalgia Remedies on 2010-07-20

2010-07-20T17:23:28Z

Twitter is becoming a big player and those who use it make comments about almost everything now. So following sites is just one more use for it.

Comment from Mange Mites on 2010-07-19

2010-07-19T22:34:37Z

Well it could still be a useful tool even if there is no way to filter or sort the tweets into catagories etc.

Comment from Conversational Hypnosis on 2010-07-08

2010-07-09T01:10:31Z

I will be learning twitter and that program as the result of the new 30 day challenge somehow they will be using twitter and that program not sure for what or how yet.

Comment from Mange Dogs on 2010-07-07

2010-07-07T21:58:59Z

I will be trying it I just started Chrome today and it sounds like a great way to track twitter traffic referencing my Mange Dog Demodex site.

Comment from Mark Cunningham Trucor on 2010-07-07

2010-07-07T15:23:48Z

I have just begun exploring twitter as a way of marketing my hypnosis seminar business. It will be good to see what twitter says each time I update my seminar training schedule and get class feed back using it.

Comment from Nick on 2010-03-23

2010-03-23T11:30:40Z

What's a popular thing annotation... Giants start to fight IMHO...

Comment from Josh Druck on 2010-02-09

2010-02-09T18:47:39Z

It's funny I was talking to my sister about this yesterday. Very cool indeed. something more people need to research and really make it count.

Onward & Upward

JoshDruck

Follow me I follow back ------> twitter.com/joshdruck

Comment from Habib Haddad on 2010-02-08

2010-02-08T18:50:06Z

hmmm ... Marginize has been doing the same thing and works on all browsers, they even have a URL shortener so you get to also see reactions there ... I also like how you can directly comment on a page from Marginize's functionality, and see threaded conversations which is pretty useful as you are trying to understand a large nbr of tweets ...

I really think it's going to be a game of execution, Google's thingy is cool but I think lacks the details that make it a usable product.

Example of margnizie in action in this RWW article: http://mar.gy/25k

PS: As a disclosure, I have been a beta user of Marginize for 3 months now ...

Comment from Natalie Michelson on 2010-02-08

2010-02-08T18:24:54Z

An alternative Twitter add-on that works for Chrome (as well as Firefox and IE) is Kutano. Similar to "Twitter Reactions" it shows tweets about the page you are looking at.

However, Kutano also has some of the advanced features mentioned. Specifically, Kutano groups RTs and "alike" tweets together to help reduce the chance of seeing the same tweet over and over. Kutano also connects with your Twitter account so that you can directly follow, retweet or @ reply any of the tweets you see.

- Natalie (from Kutano)
www.kutano.com

Comment from Marfi on 2010-02-08

2010-02-08T18:19:20Z

Nice, though it was kind of slow retrieving the tweets I liked it and saw some retweets and mentions I have never thought have been out there :)