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I might limit the number to display 10 (some have had over 175 tweetbacks), or I might even turn them off. I agree that it does make long form commenting slightly more difficult since you have to scroll down so far to leave a comment.

The one nice thing about displaying a long list is that people can easily discover new people to follow and connect with that have an interest in the same post topic. I think this then puts the blog in the position as a connector and there is great value in that. It becomes a point for building community quite easily and helping people to connect. My blog is not all about dissemination; it is about connecting people, concepts, ideas and thoughts.

I would agree that showing people’s pictures encourages the retweet behavior via an ego-stroke of having their pic display (this is not necessarily a bad thing). It also makes it easy for content to spread back into Twitter and removes a point of friction.

What I have noticed is that people do actually change the content of the retweet with their own short thoughts and just leave the tiny url. Another phenomenon is that Twitter is becoming the new blog commenting system. I tend to be on the edge of these technologies and wanted to see how it evolves and determine what is the best fit and use for this technology.

I have been blogging for 6 years and trackbacks sometimes need moderation (so tweetbacks might eventually fall into that category).

Most blogs have a very small percentage of long form commenters (less than 5%) and as a publisher of content knowing who has an interest is actually very valuable for making connections with your audience since a larger percentage will leave tweetbacks versus a long form comment. This is why mybloglog was/is quite valuable.

I have been meaning to comment on this very topic on your great blog post; but have not had time to do long form and I wanted to share my thoughts. http://www.tourismkeys.ca/blog/2009/02/is-twitter-spamming-your-blog

There will need to be controls that filters out who displays on the tweetback eventually I suspect. On this we agree. At this time I really like the basic concept of how it operates. There needs to be some UI improvements and a few tweaks; but for now I would not call tweetbacks SPAM.

No one is forcing anything on anyone. This is all willing participation. In fact I have had many people DM me and tell me that they think this is the coolest thing and they have met other people that they would not have met otherwise (not sure how this could be seen as spam or a bad thing).

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and long form blog comments will continue to live on; the world is just evolving. Cheers!

Defined as “Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it.”

RT’s within Twitter are good ways of acknowledging valuable contributions, but encouraging RT’s by using Tweetbacks sets up a positive feedback loop - encouraging RT’s so folks can pull on your coattail by retweeting anything you post? And encouraging the blogger because it gets more attention to the post.

Unfortunately, these repeated tweets at the bottom of the post get in the way and discourage conversation.

Shouldn’t more value be attributed to comments that keep the conversation alive?

I see such RT exposure of on a blog to be spam because they get in the way of real conversation. Interested in your take Rodney.