UPDATE: I stopped using tweetbacks because they just weren’t that interesting.
I came across a post on Mashable today talking about Tweetbacks (A Tweetback is like a trackback or pingback from Twitter). The Mashable post linked to a post by Dan Zarrella who has an easy to implement script you can throw on your blog to insert the tweetbacks.
I tried out Dan’s script, but couldn’t get it to work and it killed the performance of my blog, probably because everyone else who read the Mashable post is trying it out too. Fortunately, there was a comment by Jeremy Hilton that linked to a version he wrote that you can host on your own site.
I installed Dan’s script and it worked. I changed his current version (0.2) by moving the files to a subdirectory, adding links to twitter profiles, and right aligning the dates. In another comment Dan wrote that he was hard a work on a new version that will give more control over formatting. Thanks Dan!
Let me know what you think.
