TwitterScope: Follow the Rest of the Twitter Conversation

by Stuart Robertson on October 31st, 2008 | Social Media

TwitterScope will display Twitter posts from a specified user and all @replies to that user. Having all the posts on a single page makes it much easier to follow the rest of the conversation if it involves people you’re not yet following.

Twitter makes it easy to follow updates posted friends, colleagues and people you find interesting, but it can sometimes be difficult to make sense of these posts when the person is replying to someone you aren’t yet following. It can be even more confusing if they’re replying a number of different people at once.

I often found myself wanting to read all of the posts that are part of a Twitter discussion, just like on a message board, and ideally without having to do a lot of extra clicking to do it. Since I couldn’t find any 3rd party apps that did this, I decided to write one myself.

The Twitter Search API lets you request search results in JSON format, which can then be displayed on a webpage. Building on the great examples of Twitter apps by bomega, sandervdv and jazzychad I created TwitterScope, a new tool for quickly displaying Twitter conversations.

Using TwitterScope is easy:

  1. Drag this link to your browser bookmarks toolbar: TwitterScope

  2. Go to a Twitter profile page

  3. Click your new TwitterScope bookmark to see the rest of the conversation.

If you have any suggestions to make TwitterScope better please leave a comment or send me a Tweet.

16 Comments

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  2. Anne Jan Roeleveld on October 31, 2008 at 8:15 am

    Great tool, fantastic!

  3. Jeremy Mandle on October 31, 2008 at 8:29 am

    Thanks for the wonderful tool @designmeme!

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  5. Keren Dagan on October 31, 2008 at 9:15 am

    Very good post. I use TwitScoop for news too. I use it with TweetDeck so I can have it running on my desktop. If it happened in the world it will show up on Twitter and than as some tag or hashtag on TwitScoop.

    Keren

  6. Keren Dagan on October 31, 2008 at 9:32 am

    my bad, I thought that it was TwitScoop. I’ll get another cup of coffee and look at TwitterScope:) looks interesting so far.
    Keren

  7. jazzychad on October 31, 2008 at 10:23 am

    Very nice use of the Search API. One tweak you might want to make, and I’m not sure how easy it would be…

    If I am at my “home” page (i.e. http://twitter.com/home ) and click the bookmarklet, I get tweets with the word “home” in them instead of my own name and replies… you’d have to figure out some way to determine the user’s screenname and pass it to your script. May be easier said than done, but would be useful! Very cool tool, and thanks for the hat tip.

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  15. Tommaso Baldovino on November 26, 2008 at 3:58 am

    Thanks for your work, but I’ve to report a bug.

    If you use the bookmarklet on a twitter profile with a trailing slash at the end, it will show your conversations.

    Good work anyway!

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