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June 6, 2008 Comment On Twitter Via Chirrup
Go ahead and tweet on Twitter. The average person on twitter tweets twice a day according to Blaine Cook, former Chief Architect of twitter when I spoke to him at BarCamp in Austin, Texas.
How many times are you tweeting on twitter? How many comments do you post daily? What websites are you commenting on? Do you hang out on wikis? If you have an answer to any combination of these questions then you may find use for Chirrup.
England based Chirrup, the web comment to twitter twine with a name that little birds relate to, takes comments from twitter and includes them in your blogs, wikis and websites. Chirrup has been available since May 13, 2008, but I have not seen many blogs integrate the service yet.
The Chirrup blog explains one side of their commenting system like this, “Chirrup’s server-side component then slurps up the blog owner’s @replies and sorts through them for Chirrup responses. It supports compression and decompression of tinyurl’s, so comments sent with all major Twitter clients can be recognised by Chirrup’s parser.”
You can also publish to twitter via a comment you published on your friends blog. For example, if I am commenting on Chris Brogan’s blog I would also send an @ChrisBrogan on twitter that would notify him of my comment on his blog and post a Tiny URL to him on twitter linking to my exact comment.
This kind of commenting system will increase engagement on your blog. You may or may not feel inclined to use a service like this. You will have to look at it and its adoption over time to see if the technology will get any recognition in a space that is moving quickly in a space that is over-populated with competition.