5 ms·

How do you watch for Twitter and HN discussions about the posts? Do you use some automatic tool? I'm creating embedded comments software, and I've been thinkin

How do you watch for Twitter and HN discussions about the posts? Do you use some automatic tool? I'm creating embedded comments software, and I've been thinking about trying to make that software find and auto-link to [discussions about the blog post] at HN / Reddit / Twitter etc. Maybe those discussions could be represented as a special type of blog comment — so other people could upvote [the discussion that happens at HN about the blog post], and also so you could easily delete the link to that discussion... ... Or you could add a followup comment, about that discussion, by replying to the auto-generated comment that links to HN, like: "Interesting discussion that talks about ...." — so you can type a quick summary of what people said at HN, for visitors at your blog, who are short of time.

tedmiston 8y ago
HNWatcher emails me whenever my blog is mentioned on HN. I also use Google Alerts. I don't have any like this for Twitter, but it would be nice to have. Currently I just watch a search query for the article title or url in the days after publishing. Or I create a standing query in TweetDeck, but that only works on desktop. Aggregating the discussions across channels sounds interesting. Embedding that on the post page would be sweet.
- KajMagnus 8y ago
  Thanks for the info. I looked into if those things can be done automatically, and ... I think so: For HN, there's https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest which the software could monitor, and detect links to one's blog. And Reddit also has a latest-submissions feed. At both Reddit and Twitter, one can search for URLs. Seems it's possible to auto link to submissions at HN, Reddit, and to Twitter tweets, then. And Google Alerts can publish mentions of URLs to RSS feeds, so maybe can find & link to [other blog post that mention one's own blog post]. (There's webmentions .. not all blogs use that.) ... maybe Google Alerts has API restrictions & rate limits, so maybe won't work. If each discussion that happens somewhere else, gets posted at one's blog, by the comments software, in the shape of [a comment with a link to the discussion] — then one would automatically get a notification about the remote discussion (since each comment generates a notification to the blog owner).

tedmiston 8y ago

HNWatcher emails me whenever my blog is mentioned on HN. I also use Google Alerts. I don't have any like this for Twitter, but it would be nice to have. Currently I just watch a search query for the article title or url in the days after publishing. Or I create a standing query in TweetDeck, but that only works on desktop. Aggregating the discussions across channels sounds interesting. Embedding that on the post page would be sweet.

KajMagnus 8y ago
Thanks for the info. I looked into if those things can be done automatically, and ... I think so: For HN, there's https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest which the software could monitor, and detect links to one's blog. And Reddit also has a latest-submissions feed. At both Reddit and Twitter, one can search for URLs. Seems it's possible to auto link to submissions at HN, Reddit, and to Twitter tweets, then. And Google Alerts can publish mentions of URLs to RSS feeds, so maybe can find & link to [other blog post that mention one's own blog post]. (There's webmentions .. not all blogs use that.) ... maybe Google Alerts has API restrictions & rate limits, so maybe won't work. If each discussion that happens somewhere else, gets posted at one's blog, by the comments software, in the shape of [a comment with a link to the discussion] — then one would automatically get a notification about the remote discussion (since each comment generates a notification to the blog owner).