Twitter notice in Comment
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Can someone please explain to me – gently! this is one thing I just cannot seem to get my head around yet! – about this: I have a comment pending approval which is notice of a re-tweet of a tweet I sent announcing the blog article just posted. In the past I’ve deleted these “comments” which are in fact just twitter relays of the link to the article. My question is, are these kinds of things a force for traffic good or evil, or neutral? Are they like pingbacks and trackbacks, and so I should leave them out there to build traffic? Will I lose or short-circuit possible traffic if I delete this, rather than approve it for posting? [fyi – I have set my comments policy to hold all comments with any URL in them, even only one – hence this being held in queue for approval]. Thank you.
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They’re a force for good if by “good” you mean Twitter followers. They also indicate to people that others are discussing your post on various other platforms. I’d leave it in.
Staff have been tinkering with things so that Topsy pingbacks (which is probably what we’re talking about here) show up in our comments section. I believe before they didn’t.
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Thank you Raincoaster – That’s exactly what confused me – I remembered previous pingbacks showing up somewhere else, where I knew what they were – this thing in a comment field confused and made me suspicious. And yes, it’s Topsy. Thanks very much!
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