Chirrup | A Comment System For Twitter [Review]

Chirrup is comment system which uses Twitter as a datastore.

What you’ll need:

• A little space with a hosting provider who support PHP (i.e. nearly any hosting provider).
• N.B. Your host must support curl, which means completely vanilla PHP installations may not work. However, any hosting provider worth its salt will have this enabled by default.
• The ability to add a piece of Javascript to your site’s HTML templates.

Chirrup doesn’t need access to a database, and nor does it need any extra components above and beyond an industry-standard PHP installation. While Chirrup does store comments as they arrive from Twitter, Chirrup simply uses a small XML file on your server rather than relying on having a database server.

What’s the point?

People are following your Twitter feed. People are reading your blog. People are discussing things they’ve read on Twitter. It seems only natural to marry them up.

Chirrup simply provides a means to show that chatter on your blog as a set of direct responses to the content you’ve written. It also provides a means for people to post their opinions to your blog using a technology they already have and use.

How does it work?

A. People send Twitter replies to you about your site.
B. Chirrup fetches all of the replies from Twitter, and sorts them by URL so you can have a comment feed for each page in your site.
C. You put the comments wherever you want them, and style them however you please.

How do I set it up?

Head over to the HOWTO page.

Ready to get started? Go here >> http://chirrup.angryamoeba.co.uk >> to download Chirrup.

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