Enabling Tweetbacks

If you do happen to give Chat Catcher a try, Rick, I'd be curious on your thoughts in comparison to Tweetbacks. I've only used CC and wonder if there's much of a difference.

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Hi Shannon - I may take you up on your offer if I can't figure it out. While I don't doubt what you're saying about trackback autodiscovery, I do get trackbacks (seemingly) automatically on my blog posts in the past.

It may be the part of how my comments.php file is written - it's a varient of the WP Premium theme and it doesn't have exactly the same "standard" comment loop that the default WP 2.7 theme has.

Since there are some other discussion-related changes I want to do with my theme, I may try to re-write that and fix the auto-trackback issue. I'll take a closer look at Chat Catcher this week to see how that fits into what I want to do.

By the way, Chat Catcher looks pretty darn amazing, so I'll keep a close eye on developments.

Cheers!

Hi Rick,

Thanks for giving Chat Catcher a try. I'm sorry you couldn't get it to work. I've changed the process so that trackback autodiscovery is not required, however, I am concerned that so many WordPress themes have left out this important feature. Even though trackbacks are enabled, your blog doesn't support trackback autodiscovery (a common problem).

Here's a link to the WordPress Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop_in_Action#T...

I'd be happy to give you a hand if you want another go with the latest "big" upgrades to Chat Catcher. You know where to reach me. :)

Mike, I'm familiar with Chat Catcher (at least to a certain degree) and tried to get it working for my blog a week or so ago. It didn't work. Chat Catcher couldn't find the script that I added to the proper location on the blog, and it also didn't detect that trackbacks are enabled.

Obviously, I've overlooked something somewhere to get it to work, but I just haven't had the time.

Interestingly, Tweetbacks finds those short-url Tweets as well and adds them to the comment stream here.

I've not settled on a solution yet, but am going to be trying out a few more tools as they develop. One thing I've learned for sure, is that I need to re-write my comments.php to separate out trackbacks, comments, and tweets. Having them all jumbled together is "untidy" I think.

Oh, and say "hi" to Shannon W. - I've traded tweets with him several times. A real good guy.

I haven't tried Tweetbacks, but I have implemented -- and fallen in love with -- a similar solution called Chat Catcher, developed by a friend of mine, Shannon Whitley.

I haven't looked closely enough at Tweetbacks to notice any specific functional differences, but I really like Chat Catcher a lot. Not only is it great for helping to keep focused the conversation around a blog post, but it's a powerful monitoring tool, too.

For example, if someone tweets about "this great post about Twitter and PR" and includes a link to my blog, which would be masked by a URL shortening service, I'd never know they were talking about my site if it weren't for Chat Catcher because that tweet didn't mention my name or my blog's name.

That's important for PR people and anyone else using online communication for professional purposes -- and for the plain old egomaniacs. :)

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Heh, I found out about it from your Small Biz Survival blog!
:D
I'll be keeping an eye on it as it develops, a great idea for sure.

I'm using it too. So far, it's inconsistent. Sometimes it shows the Tweets, sometimes not. But I like this development!

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Trying out the Tweetbacks WordPress plug-in. What are your thoughts on this plugin? http://tinyurl.com/8m797j

@swhitley When Chat Catcher gets its first multi-million-dollar valuation, remember your first active community manager :) http://is.gd/fpiW