Since I have a decent number of followers on Twitter, most of the feedback I get is through Twitter, and that feedback is about almost everything including blog posts, which I usually tweet about.
If you have a decent following on Twitter, chances are your Tweet about a post of yours receives as much replies if not more than comments left on the actual post. It keeps happening to me in almost every post recently.
I don’t mind that fact, but also I would love to pull all of those tweets and relevant conversation and make it part of the post in question, so that everyone who’s contributing through different channels would know about each other.
With that idea in mind, we decided to create Commentweet for our use, which helps us (and might help you) pull all replies to a tweeted post in a nice and easy way, which works like this:
You tweet about the latest post on the blog, and all reply tweets to that particular tweet gets pulled in automatically to “Commentweet” section, which you can place anywhere.
Here’s how to install it in WordPress:
- Download the WordPress plugin here.
- Unpack it.
- Upload it and place it in the “Plugins” folder.
- Activate the plugin.
- Place this code “commentweet_widget();” in your post template in any way you wish.
- To add a Commentweet counter for posts on the homepage, you can add this code “commentweet_widget_nu_o();” to the Main Index template.

January 13th, 2009 at 11:33 am
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January 14th, 2009 at 2:19 am
Nice work I tried it and I have worked successfully, but I want to use joomla Can I
January 25th, 2009 at 4:12 am
Glad you liked it, we will work on Joomla plugin soon… we still to improve on the current WordPress plugin.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Excellent initiative! Is there a way to mix the twitter comments with ordinary comments?
Best regards
July 4th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
I’m not able to publish my new post to a tweet sucessfully. I can see when I go to the Commentweet page in the admin section of Wordpress a message saying “Clear commentweet error - Why are you seeing this field?”, how do I check what went wrong?