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We wanted to implement a Twitter comment system on our site much like Facebook has - so we could foster a community around the articles. To do that, we wanted to be able to create a box that lets you enter in your possible 'Tweet' and click 'Tweet' to send it out. Also we wanted to let you RT from our app!

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Yeah the commenting system the way it works right now, goes through the json array once to see if there are any @replies, and to find which were RT's were a hassle because we would have to do a bunch of string comparisons (since Twitter's search API doesn't return the relevant data). So we were thinking right now to both keep the data loading as fast as possible and keep our API calls limited, we would leave them in but throw them at the bottom of the comments.

You could use Backtype for getting the replies. They've probably already done a lot of work to find the most relevant tweets.

@revorad nice! We use chartbeat so we should have thought of using backtype (their Twitter stream app of choice). Definitely will see how well that fits into our next iteration.

It doesn't say that on the page. I bounced because I assumed that any app that wants permission to post to my timeline is going to spam some kind of advertisement for itself -- unless I have a reason to trust it. In this case, I've never heard of the app and I don't know who you are, so I don't.

I'm just explaining why I immediately left; I don't know if this happens frequently enough for you to care.

We definitely need to make it more clear what exactly we are going to do with your information and make sure people know that there is NO spamming. Everything is done at the user's discretion.

About those comments: they need work, I'm seeing a lot of straight retweets in there with no changed/added content. I would definitely filter those out, they're just retweets. Also, "Click here to read more" needs to be on the next line, it's very ugly this way.

Both very good points, and we'll work on adding them in soon.

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