Social Media Reactions: Connect the conversation across the web

A few weeks ago, we announced a couple features that were being exclusively previewed on Mashable.com. We posted:

We’re big believers in the power of the comments to overtake the blog post. Content may be king, but with a great audience, it is only the first voice in the conversation to follow.

We were introducing Social Media Reactions, a new feature on Disqus that aims to connect the discussion on your site with the scattered conversations occurring everywhere else on the web. Today, people have many tools available to discover, read, and discuss great content. Blog posts and articles can be mentioned on Twitter, commented about on Digg, and even shared across FriendFeed. Now, these social media reactions can be connected back to your site keeping the conversation together. When your posts are being discussed on Twitter and Digg, these tweets and comments will appear within your Disqus powered comment thread. Here are two examples from inquisitr.com and avc.com (under the main comment thread).

Limited Release

Starting today, we are doing a limited release of this feature to sites on Disqus. By next week, every site on Disqus will begin seeing reactions on articles. But, you can enable it for your site immediately to be first in line. To enable this feature, head to your Admin/Settings and enable Social Media Reactions.

The full list of currently supported services include comments and entries from:

Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, YouTube, Vimeo, Picasa, and Flickr.

Thanks to our friends at uberVU, our new conversation tracker was possible. They’re doing incredibly cool things and we hope you check them out.

Tweet your comments!

We have one more bonus feature. Now, commenters can broadcast their comments out to Twitter with a link back to the post. By bringing the conversation to Twitter, people can let their friends know about interesting articles that they are discussing. For commenters with Disqus accounts, head to Account/Services to enter the necessary Twitter information. Here is a short video explaining how to setup and use tweetbacks.

We are focused on helping you keep the conversation together and bring out the best discussion on your sites; What do you think? Leave your reactions in the comments below. Or elsewhere — we should find them. :)

Daniel on April 2nd 2009 in Latest Release, disqus

  • Still waiting for this. Any idea when it will be available for everyone?
  • This is very nice feature! Great job DISQUS!

    I have enabled the Social media reactions settings last week. How will I know if it has been activated or not? Do you notify via mail or something?
  • I need this on my blog
  • Joe
    Hey guys, thanks for the hard work. I've added it to my site and just waiting for it to show up.

    Thanks again!
  • Joe
    I just noticed that there is nothing extra added to the tweet when you post it to twitter. It seems confusing to just have the comment go straight to Twitter. Is there anyway to having something like 'Commented on <sitename>' added before the tweet?
  • Anton Kovalyov
    We attach a shortened link to every tweet that is made from Disqus.
  • Joe
    The link is certainly helpful, but I think that without having any sort of context for the tweet, it makes no sense. I know there isn't a lot of real estate in a tweet but something denoting that it's a comment would be helpful in my book.
  • Anton Kovalyov
    I understand your point, Joe. However, with 140 characters limit you get either a somewhat meaningless link or a completely meaningless tweet. So the former is the lesser of two evils.
  • Joe
    Yeah, I agree. With such a small space, not a lot of choices.

    Thanks for keeping up the good work on Disqus.
  • Anton: Have you considered something like "via Disqus Blog Comments" or similar, so that people unfamiliar with Disqus have a sense of what it is?
  • Alan,

    We've considered that but it uses a lot of characters. Possibly (via Disqus) but we have something else planned. =)

    Giannii
    DISQUS
    Community Manager
    help@disqus.com
    http://twitter.com/giannii
  • This is an example of tweetbacks.
  • I love the new features but I have no idea how it would look because i can't find any examples. Can someone please explain how a tweet would be gathered and displayed?
  • I will be posting a video later tonight/tomorrow morning explaining how to set it up and showing the look as well. For the time being however you can check http://bit.ly/itTx .

    Giannii
    DISQUS
    Community Manager
    help@disqus.com
    http://twitter.com/giannii
  • Still waiting for this. Any idea when it will be available for everyone?
  • I need this on my blog
  • Joe
    Hey guys, thanks for the hard work. I've added it to my site and just waiting for it to show up.

    Thanks again!
  • Joe
    I just noticed that there is nothing extra added to the tweet when you post it to twitter. It seems confusing to just have the comment go straight to Twitter. Is there anyway to having something like 'Commented on <sitename>' added before the tweet?
  • This is an example of tweetbacks.
  • Anton Kovalyov
    We attach a shortened link to every tweet that is made from Disqus.
  • Joe
    The link is certainly helpful, but I think that without having any sort of context for the tweet, it makes no sense. I know there isn't a lot of real estate in a tweet but something denoting that it's a comment would be helpful in my book.
  • Anton Kovalyov
    I understand your point, Joe. However, with 140 characters limit you get either a somewhat meaningless link or a completely meaningless tweet. So the former is the lesser of two evils.
  • Joe
    Yeah, I agree. With such a small space, not a lot of choices.

    Thanks for keeping up the good work on Disqus.
  • I love the new features but I have no idea how it would look because i can't find any examples. Can someone please explain how a tweet would be gathered and displayed?
  • I will be posting a video later tonight/tomorrow morning explaining how to set it up and showing the look as well. For the time being however you can check http://bit.ly/itTx .

    Giannii
    DISQUS
    Community Manager
    giannii@disqus.com
    http://twitter.com/giannii
  • Implementing the new feature Social Media Reactions powered by Disqus in my blogs.
  • Implementing the new feature Social Media Reactions powered by Disqus in my blogs.
  • Implementing the new feature Social Media Reactions powered by Disqus in my blogs.
  • Has anyone apart from Mashable got this working?
  • Not working for me, do I need to update generic code as I have done admin setting changes but there is no effect at all
  • No, it's not working for me either Zee. Installed yesterday afternoon, a new post this AM had several re-tweets I was aware of, but did not see them on the blog at all. Would love to see what this looks like when it does work.
  • The release is a limited roll out. The post has a two additional example sites to see it working.

    The settings are live for everyone and we decided to announce it because people noticed the new changes. In a few days, we will be completely up to speed and everyone's site will be pulling in these.
  • Implementing the new feature Social Media Reactions powered by Disqus in my blogs.
  • Has anyone apart from Mashable got this working?
  • I love it...
  • Not working for me, do I need to update generic code as I have done admin setting changes but there is no effect at all
  • Anton: Have you considered something like "via Disqus Blog Comments" or similar, so that people unfamiliar with Disqus have a sense of what it is?
  • No, it's not working for me either Zee. Installed yesterday afternoon, a new post this AM had several re-tweets I was aware of, but did not see them on the blog at all. Would love to see what this looks like when it does work.
  • The release is a limited roll out. The post has a two additional example sites to see it working.

    The settings are live for everyone and we decided to announce it because people noticed the new changes. In a few days, we will be completely up to speed and everyone's site will be pulling in these.
  • Alan,

    We've considered that but it uses a lot of characters. Possibly (via Disqus) but we have something else planned. =)

    Giannii
    DISQUS
    Community Manager
    giannii@disqus.com
    http://twitter.com/giannii
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