Twitter Reactions: See What Twitter is Saying About Any Website
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.
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]
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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 :)
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
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 ...
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
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