Quotably- new website makes following twitter conversations easy

And most importantly, Thank you for demonstrating the power of a well-executed concept (and showing that it is possible to build something interesting and useful in a weekend.

btucker4• 18 years ago

example feeds:

http://quotably.com/TechCrunch http://quotably.com/davewiner http://quotably.com/Ross

note, there are also RSS feeds for anyone's conversations, just add a .rss to the end of the URL. ie: http://quotably.com/Ross.rss

DustinMooney• 18 years ago

Really cool site!

manvsmachine• 18 years ago

I just threw it up on twitter... it got a big thumbs up and shoutout from Scoble.

edit: and Leo Laporte, and Cali Lewis... I hope you can handle the coming traffic.

wave• 18 years ago

I think it is a good idea. Contact http://twitter.com/help/contact and let them know. They usually post twitter tools on their blog, they might post your tool.

zealog• 18 years ago

Cool. Simple. Clean. Thumbs up.

webwright• 18 years ago

Very well done!

It seems a little iffy on associations of tweets as replies... but I guess that's the nature of twitter.

btucker4• 18 years ago

yeah, unfortunately it is. At present it uses the same threading algorithm as twitter does, namely: if there's an @username in a tweet, assume it's responding to the last tweet of that user. I may look to do something smarter down the road.. we'll see.

cstejerean2• 18 years ago

here's an idea. Make a message to @B from A be a reply to the last message from B to @A if any.

girk• 18 years ago

Very cool. One thing I noticed is that it has "all" messages posted, including ones the user may have deleted off of their Twitter feed... Seems that once it is sent out into the Twittosphere, you can't actually retract the message, even by "deleting" it. So, this makes for an interesting way to see everything ;)

pb30• 18 years ago

I'd like a page that lists all the updates from those that I'm following (like a standard Twitter client) but with a link to expand the conversation around each update

ryanmahoski• 18 years ago

Less useful but related idea: twitterfight. When two people send a bunch of direct messages to one another, that suggests a potential fight. So one day I hacked together a yahoo! pipe to highlight twitter battles. The trouble was that polite conversations kept getting through my filters. Short of manually cleansing the data, I concluded there was no utility. Smart work, Ben, on fixing the larger problem of twitter threading.

Quotably- new website makes following twitter conversations easy

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