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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. Curr
by 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 agoThanks 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).