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TwitterScope: Show Complete Twitter Conversations

Boris Written on 31st October 2008                                                                                                              9 COMMENTS some text
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

TwitterScopeTwitterScope is a nice new Twitter addition developed by Canadian Web Designer Stuart Robertson. It comes in the form of a Bookmarklet and all you have to do is drag a link to your browser toolbar. Full instructions can be found at the original blog.

If you have experience with Bookmarklets you can also use this: TwitterScope

Then visit the page of a random Twitter profile and click the Bookmarklet entitled “TwitterScope” in your browsers bookmarks bar.

A new window will pop up showing that person’s tweets AND replies to his tweets. Suddenly you are listening to dialogs instead of monologues in Twitter.

After using it for a while I realized that this is exactly what I have been missing in Twitter. I often aimlessly browse through profiles trying to get a sense of what the conversation is about. Before you know it you will have 6 windows open with different profiles looking for who replied to whom in different topics.

With TwitterScope the whole conversation is just a click away.

TwitterScope: Show Complete Twitter Conversations

About the author: Serial entrepreneur and founder of several companies. Current activities include TwitterCounter.com & this Blog. Boris is also very active on Twitter: @Boris

9 comments/trackbacks to “TwitterScope: Show Complete Twitter Conversations”

  1. Jan 19, 2009: ScreenOrigami (Sandra Kallmeyer)

    @neilhimself , @ianshepherd : TwitterScope’s bookmarklet is broken on original site, here’s one that works: http://tinyurl.com/7lcetl

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  1. By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on Oct 31, 2008

    that works faster than Twitter search!

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    By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on October 31st, 2008:

    more convenient too…

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  2. By Jerry Houtman on Oct 31, 2008

    Just tried it and it sucked… only saw the last conversion, althought the previous one was only a few hours ago! How dissappointing…

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    By Stuart Robertson on October 31st, 2008:

    If you want to post a link to the profile you weren’t seeing the results you expected with TwitterScope I can take a look.

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  3. By Jerry Houtman on Oct 31, 2008

    http://tinyurl.com/5bldhq

    it showed the last conversation, then missed the next 2 or 3 and the next one did show on the scope.

    BTW: checked it with others, and if it DOES work properly its a great app!

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    By Stuart Robertson on October 31st, 2008:

    TwitterScope is reliant on the data that gets sent back from the Twitter Search API. Since it’s just a way to interact with that data, it’s only as good as what they send back via JSON. You should try some searches for @username and from:username at http://search.twitter.com/ and see if they’re working properly.

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    By Jerry Houtman on October 31st, 2008:

    Yup you’re right, the results I get from search.twitter.com are just as lousy.

    To make a long story short: nice app Stuart!

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  4. By Carolyn on Oct 31, 2008

    Finally!! This is great.

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