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"BackTweets has actually been around for a while too -- and was always a part of BackType Connect (which shows you other reactions including hacker news, digg, reddit, friendfeed). We even personalize results to show a viewer which of their friends shared a link:http://www.backtype.com/connect...... We have a similar chicklet to encourage retweets; it differs in that the colors are completely customizable and it integrates automatically with google analytics. Another one of our widgets shows only the interesting tweets:http://widgets.backtype.com/backtwe......" - Mike Montano

"excellent point." - Mike Montano

"Hi Brad, thanks for getting in touch with us -- we had an issue related to your domain specifically that is being addressed right now in addition to some corrupted indexes that were affecting all of our counts today. Both of these will be fixed very soon and our counts will return to being accurate." - Mike Montano

"nemmeno io capisco il problema. XP SP3 è ancora supportato, no?" - Mike Montano

"Thanks Matt." - Mike Montano

"Hi Andrew, Our search API isn't currently offered using Superfeedr. Just the user feeds -- we'll be adding a realtime search API in the near future." - Mike Montano

what are backtype buzz comments? - Mike Montano

Mike, anything that uses <link rel="me"/> links as your user profile will work. You can import your own website that way as well. - Jesse Stay

"Hi Lisa, The goal of BackType Connect is to help publishers and readers see all the conversation around the web about a post or topic. Having said that, you bring up some great points that we’re very aware of. I should point out though, that the default setting is only to pull in conversations from Digg, Reddit, FriendFeed, and news.yc (where the publisher can be sure the conversation is relevant and adds values). Conversations from other blog posts is disabled initially for many of the reasons you mentioned, including relevancy and quality. In fact we constantly encourage publishers to leave the setting that way, because there are very few cases when anyone benefits from the comments on other posts out of context." - Mike Montano

"BackType is hiring software engineers. Our tech blog has a small glimpse at some of the tools we're working with:http://tech.backtype.com We're also contributing to some cool projects:http://github.com/nathanm..." - Mike Montano

"I like PHP even more now." - Mike Montano

Still happy with AWS for BT though? - Bryan Landers

will do, should have something new for tomorrow - Mike Montano

"Can you follow up w/ us via support [at] backtype [dot] com and I’ll take a look into any tweets we’re missing. We support wp.me, but maybe something is going wrong with the link you tried." - Mike Montano

Yani benim siteye gelmiyor demiyorum. Backtype kendisi alamıyor gördüğüm kadarıyla. Ancak alabildikleri geliyor. - Süleyman Sönmez

Mike, your dev-support rocks! Better than local ones :) - Cem Öztürk

"We opened up an API for backtweets a while ago: http://backtweets.com/api What would you build with it? Some people are using it in cool ways right now, e.g. hype machine uses it to power a twitter music chart." - Mike Montano

I did the same thing. What I've found, though, is that Backtype is so far behind that by the time it posts things here that it is almost a day in the past and the comments don't show up on the first few of my FriendFeed screens. - Peter Murray

Yikes, that's not helpful. Maybe I'll figure out how to embed Backtype links at the end blog posts, which I just noticed here: http://factoryjoe.com/blog... - Stephen Francoeur

Peter, were you using the my comments elsewhere or the connect plugin? Unfortunately we did not create, nor do we maintain the my comments elsewhere plugin (it just uses our API). I'd be happy to help you hack it so it picks comments up more frequently. - Mike Montano

"There are a bunch of coworking spaces in the city. I think all have monthly fees, but you can drop in and check them out: http://citizenspace.us/http:... Panera in SOMA is right beside the caltrain and has lots of outlets." - Mike Montano

"You're right, it does increase the delay. It's more of an example of how Gearman can be used. Also, I _hate_ the idea of running an MTA on 30 machines that shouldn't be sending mail." - Mike Montano

"Perhaps I'm getting hung up on the semantics. We use it more to farm out function calls, rather than passing content or delivering large messages. The one time I tried to use it for large amounts of data I did have issues with memory and latency. For simple RPC-style use (millions per day) though, our server has been stable (no change in memory or latency) for months without a restart." - Mike Montano

"To clarify, Gearman is not meant to be used as a message queue, but instead it's a job server. The example in the post is an interesting use case (and convenient for us because we were already using it as a job server), but not really what it's designed for. I'll follow up with a post on how we use it to do work." - Mike Montano

"Are you now using Beanstalkd instead? What kinds of jobs were you submitting? I've also run into problems using the python client handling errors, failover, and reconnects. But no issues with the C API, processing about 5 million jobs a day." - Mike Montano

"Ann, thanks for the great post. Indu, while alerts are for mentions in comments, search on the site itself is for what’s being said about that topic. It includes the post, comments, and more to try find the best conversations." - Mike Montano

"Actually, can you shoot me an email at mm [at] backtype? I can send you the set of changes (we haven’t incorporated them back into our version of the plugin)." - Mike Montano

"Hi Rob, We’ve had a few users modify the plugin to make it work for MU. Will follow up shortly w/ a link or details of the changes." - Mike Montano

"Hi Johan, you can set the button location to manual and then echo backtype_tweetcount() anywhere in your template/theme that you want it displayed. See http://wordpress.org/extend... for a bit more, or contact me at support [at] backtype if I can be of further assistance." - Mike Montano

commentary on today's wp stuff - Mike Montano from Bookmarklet

Hey Jay, a few months ago we made some fundamental changes that would have affected the my comments elsewhere plugin -- since we didn't create it and don't maintain it I was worried it might stop working for most users. It's still working for you? Did I help you with a small fix (I can't remember anymore). - Mike Montano

BTW -- what sold me in the first place was that your service found some of my earliest comments on TechCrunch in 2006 :) - Jay Cuthrell

"Thanks — lot’s of improvements to come quickly." - Mike Montano

"Aditya, thanks for the feedback -- if anything this latest release reflects that we are much more focused on solving search problems as they relate to both consumers and businesses. Previously BackType was viewed as a toolset for comment authors, bloggers, and businesses -- features like subscriptions, claiming your own comments, etc still exist but they are more buried for those power users. We're working hard on improving our search :)" - Mike Montano

For example, I'd like to read comments made by people on FriendFeed AND people on Google Reader for the same article in one place. - Kol Tregaskes

Mike, I guess the question is where I want to read all this, yes in one place but FF is, of course, my preferred choice of reading stuff. Basically I have lots of comments from my posts in FriendFeed, Google Reader and now Facebook and would like to read all the comments in one place. - Kol Tregaskes

"btw, are you using the new posterous iphone app? you should check it out, it's really nice (since you switched from sleek nokias to hipster iphones :P)" - Mike Montano