Tips » Tweetboard - A Sleek Twitter Application For Your Premium Site

Twitter is a social networking phenomenon. It has taken the online world by storm and has rapidly become one of the easiest applications for anyone to communicate and report world breaking news instantly.

Twitter has also been picked up by celebrities and brands allowing people to become followers, reading and learning from whatever they broadcast. Essentially Twitter is a very effective way to increase your sites exposure on the world wide web. Admittedly it's a 'stab in the dark' at first, but eventually you'll start to get relevant people reading your tweets and visiting your site. One thing you mustn't do is give up on Twitter, it might appear alien to begin with, 'What are you doing now' is a boring question, instead think of it as 'Whats entertaining you now'. Post links to music, video, whatever you like, just don't bore people with "Jim is watching TV"....so, So, SO BORING!

Anyway enough of me ranting about Twitter. I've come accros a great site on Webjam called "Pub Town",(The clue's in the name). They are using a very slick Twitter application on their site called "Tweetboard". This application pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations. Conversations that spin off the original conversation are also threaded in-line, giving your site visitors full perspective of what's being discussed.

The widget is a very subtle tab that sits on the side of every page on your site. If you click onto the tab it expands, and slides out your Twitter page. It displays your latest tweets as well as giving the reader the ability to write/Tweet through Twitter and of course start following you!

So whats this going to do for me? In a nut shell, it's giving the reader the ability to connect, share and engage your site with your visitors and their friends. Each time someone posts (or replies) via your board, a link back to the corresponding conversation is appended to their tweet, creating a viral stream of Twitter traffic to your website, and viral marketing is what we like, so eventually you'll receive more hits. Whoop whoop!

Beforee you go charging into this application, have a look at 'Pub Town', so you fully understand what the application does.

Here's how you add it:

1. Visit 'Tweetboard', click HERE

2. Request a Free Alpha Invite

3. Enter your Twitter account details.

4. Your Twitter page will open, Tweetboard will request you to tweet them your site's URL, enter the details and send it!

5. Tweetboard will send you an @reply with a link to their HTML code.

6. Copy the code and insert it into the header of your site (Premium users only).

* HELP I'M NOT A PREMIUM USER!!

If you hold a Free account with Webjam, you can still use this feature BUT you will have to add the code to a 'free HTML module' on every page of your site, in order for it to work on every page.