Shannon Whitley

How many times have you announced a new blog post on Twitter, and rather than commenting on your blog, people tweet their comments?  If those tweets contain links to your post, Chat Catcher will capture them for you, but what if the tweets don’t have links?  Now, with a new feature called Chat Threads, those tweets will be captured as well.

The example below shows a conversation that occurred on Twitter around a blog post that was written by Neville Hobson (Dell’s Twitter Sales).  The first tweet (actually a retweet) contained a direct link to the original blog post.  That first tweet would have always been captured by Chat Catcher.  With the new Chat Threads feature, replies to those tweets are captured as well, even though they don’t contain links to the blog post.

• jjdeeleythinks: RT @Hitwise_UK: Dell’s Twitter sales (through @DellOutlet) have now reached $3m http://bit.ly/SRsBh (blog post by @jangles) 

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    theraromachine: @jjdeeleythinks Dell say $2million… since 2007 (http://tinyurl.com/nh6a82 … so that’s what between 2,000 – 3,000 laptops? Not amazing. 

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    jjdeeleythinks: @theraromachine not sure its quite that underwhelming. Selling on a relatively new channel is still interesting + how many leads generated?

    

  • theraromachine: @jjdeeleythinks globally though? I guess it only gets better – and probably much better return than on advertising…

     

Chat Threads round out the conversation.  In just this one example, the blog author might have missed three-quarters of what was said.

The Chat Threads feature has just been introduced and we will be closely monitoring its progress.  Don’t expect to see these types of tweets appear for all blog posts, but you may start to notice them with your more popular posts.

As always, I look forward to your comments and suggestions.