Chat Catcher – twitter trackback plugin for your blog

By Nischal Shetty on February 1st, 2009

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Chat Catcher is a plugin for blogs which scans twitter and a few other services for references to your blog posts. All mentions of your blog posts by twitter users would be posted as a comment on your blog!

This is a great way of checking out how popular your blog posts are on twitter.

Besides, when users come to know that mentioning your blog post in their tweet would be acknowledged in your blog, then the probability of them tweeting about it increases.

Chat Catcher makes use of the twitter search API to get the tweets that mention your blog post.

There is a wordpress plugin available as well as a blog script generator in case you use some other PHP based software. You can also have a scriptless Chat Catcher functionality if you are unable to use scripts on your site.

Chat Catcher also provides an RSS feed of all the comments posted on each of the blogs it tracks.

Quickie

Your blog post mentions in tweets are posted as comments
Wordpress plugin available
Generate your own script for any other PHP based platform
Scriptless Chat Catcher available for those who cannot add scripts to their blogs
Expands shortened URLs

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Chat Catcher Says

Chat Catcher scans services like Twitter and FriendFeed for references to your blog posts. When someone links to your blog, their post will be published to your blog’s comments.

Web

Chat Catcher -Â Blog comments happen everywhere, catch them and pull them back to your blog.

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Categories: Blog Tools
Tags: blog tools, detect blog mentions, plugins, twitter trackback plugin

About the Author

Nischal Shetty

Founder of twi5.com. I'm a twitter addict and I love trying out new twitter applications. I write small, stupid twitter rhymes once a while. Follow me on twitter @NischalShetty. You can follow @twi5 for updates on new twitter apps.

5 Responses to “Chat Catcher – twitter trackback plugin for your blog”

kaex88 (Nidhi Makhija)
February 1, 2009 at 8:42 am | Permalink

Twitter Comment

Great review/explanation of the Chat Catcher app, courtesy @twi5 @NischalShetty [link to post]

– Posted using Chat Catcher
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September 7, 2009 at 7:10 pm | Permalink

[...] You can download the plugin here. [...]
Norene
September 29, 2009 at 6:32 am | Permalink

Thanks for the info on Chat Catcher! Can’t wait to try it out! -Norene
Nischal Shetty
September 29, 2009 at 6:49 am | Permalink

@Norene

Chat Catcher’s a nice plugin. It’s used here on Twi5. Waiting to hear if you find it useful as well
j
September 29, 2009 at 12:33 pm | Permalink

Hi there

I have the feeling we are killing Twitter with so many app.
There is nothing best than quality content and it is discovered by natural and not artificial methods.

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