Backtype, a web site that allows you to find and follow comments from across the web has recently released their first crack at a WordPress plugin. Installing the plugin to your WordPress blog allows you to show conversation and comments from Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg and more related to your content. Users can then post replies right on your blog.
As for your existing comments, they just seem to mesh right in with comments pulled from around the web. It looks, well, brilliant to be honest with you.
Disqus has an early release that it seems only Mashable has access to right now, but it doesn’t seem as blended as this Backtype version. I’ll be disabling Disqus in the next few days to try this Backtype plugin out on Good Plum.
Features (from Backtype’s site)
- Display comments from other blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, and more
- You can configure exactly what sources you want to display related conversations from
- Summarize, display comments inline, or append them to the end of your comments section
- Your readers can even respond to the comments BackType Connect displays
What do you think of this implementation? It seems that anyone with a WordPress blog may want to try this out. If you’re not adventurous, you may want to wait until the bugs are worked out in version 0.2 :).
Filed under: News and tagged with: backtype, blogging, disqus, Social Media.
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I cannot wait to fire this bad boy up and take it out for a spin, thanks for posting this item. I have been looking for something like this for a while now.
Wow, Backtype could be a powerful search for business. Testing it out right now…
Never heard of backtype before, well it is pretty interesting I'll check it out for myself
best comment search engine which ever I found, cool. Nice info sharing, so informatif posting. Thank's…
good sharing, thanks guy.
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very interesting, I should try it.
Did you try this out? I notice you are back on disqus.
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