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How to follow conversations on Twitter
After reading Dave’s post about Twitter being the new Facebook yesterday, I decided to give Digsby a go. (I’d heard of it previously, but I was semi-scared off by all the twittermania - it’s a bit like marmite).
Since I was only following a few tweeters there wasn’t of a flow - so I added a couple more higher profile tweeters, like Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror.
This morning Jeff tweeted:
I quite like #region in VS.NET, (it makes my code look/feel tidy). I was curious to why Jeff had a problem with it, so I tempted to reply to his tweet. But I stopped - thinking it was a bit of a fan-boy thing to do. Also I’m sure someone else would have asked the same question… which got me thinking how do you follow a conversation on Twitter?
I came across Summize (a search engine for Twitter) the other day, so tried that to see if anyone mentions #region or @codinghorror - which they do, but it’s a tad disjointed. I couldn’t follow a conversation.
So I turned to my old friend Google (how to follow conversations on twitter), and found Quotably!
Now I can follow the conversation: http://quotably.com/codinghorror/statuses/811735028
Quotably is powered by Summize, with some extra jiggery-pokery (and human intervention).
