don't feed the robots

Lets face it, blog comments sucks. Wouldn’t our life be easier if we can simply tweet our blog comments?

After I migrated my blog from Blogger to Wordpress, I was in the market for an open auth blog comment plugin. I had used Disqus up until now, and I enjoyed the fact that people can easily leave comments using their existing Facebook ID. But then it occurred to me, what if people could log in with Twitter. Even better, what if people could simply tweet their comments and their conversation can follow them from the blog to their natural social habitat? Shouldn’t my comments belong to me anyways? Yay! Finally a use for twitter. In this light, twitter becomes a solution to preserve comment ownership and facilitate comment portability.

For this experiment, I used a nifty plugin called Twitoaster whose original purpose was to thread Twitter conversations. If this sound a little strange to you, go ahead and post a comment to see it for yourself! XD

ps. twitoaster has a delay in synching tweets so your comments might not show up right away