Lots of people seem to have connected twitter to disqus recently. Unfollowing them - too many out of context comments. Bad UI, Disqus.

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4 Aug 2009

Lots of people seem to have connected twitter to disqus recently. Unfollowing them - too many out of context comments. Bad UI, Disqus. Aug 4, 2009 10 :29 via Twitter

Michael Buckbee
August 4, 2009 10:54 AM

I kind of like them, but wonder if they could would be better summarized as: “I was engaged enough that I left a comment at http://bitly/something”

I think sorting out the UI for Tweets as comments could actually be useful in lots of situations and apps, just not sure it’s really possible to give enough context in 140 characters.


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