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BackType The Twitter for Comments AND a Potential Valuable Resource
August 27, 2008 · Print This Article · Comments
Tech Crunch featured a great post on the new startup, BackType.Com, founded by Christopher Golda and Michael Montano. Calling it the Twitter for Comments — we went ahead and checked it out. According to the site itself, BackType is:
BackType is a service that lets you find, follow and share comments from across the web. Whenever you write a comment with a link to your website, BackType attributes it to you. We give comment authors a profile featuring all the comments they’ve written on the Internet. If you don’t have a website to use when you fill out comment forms, sign up and use one of ours.
If you really think through this, there just might be some very valuable use for BackType. A comment aggregator by user has potential… serious potential.
You can search for specific people and subscribe to their comments (think Me, Jack Humphrey, Ron Capps), you can also search for specific topics (think social media marketing, blog marketing, and even topics like Barack Obama).
Now, I know what you’re thinking, it’s not another addition to the comment issue. I completely agree with Tech Crunch on this one, it’s not just another addition — it is completely different. BackType aggregates all the users’ comments from the website URL they use when posting comments:
This means, every comment you post — under the URLs you consistently comment under — will be aggregated in one location.
The Potential?
- The media, journalists, bloggers, and others doing research could easily find out what a bunch of people are saying about a particular topic.
- Online entrepreneurs could “follow” their favorite expert and find out what they are reading and saying about industry developments and more.
- If it did go mainstream to media and the masses, it has the potential for another place online for strategic activities to occur. Not just comment for backlinks and traffic, but for visibility and exposure to a larger group that might not come directly from your blog.
Here’s what others are saying about BackType on the Net:
Louis Gray, BackType Goes Forward with Comment Tracker and Search
Tech Crunch, BackType a Twitter for Comments
It’s still pretty new, so we’ll see what happens with it 
You can follow the Web Success 2.0 team on BackType:
http://www.backtype.com/websuccessdiva
Update 09/03/08:
It seems BackType is taking off… here are some more resources we’ve uncovered online, so you can see what people are saying about this cool new resource:
BackType Launches with David Crow
Meet BackType: Fun New Reputation Management Tool
BackType Goes Forward with Comments with Louis Gray
BackType Tracks Comments Across Blogs
Five Questions About BackType Answered from BackType Co-Founder
BackType Helping You Track and Search Blog Comments
WebMonkey’s Take on BackType for Comments
Make Use Of’s Take on BackType for Comments
Enjoy BackTyping!
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Check Out the Conversation on FriendFeed 
Thanks, I’m always looking for new web 2.0 tools. Glad I follow you on Twitter and Facebook.
Fred
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This is a much needed resource. So much amazing content gets lost in the comments and I agree with TC that this is just not the same. I intend to start using this on my work project - http://overlay.tv - as soon as we get to comments.
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Hi Maria,
So is this like the service called co.mments where you can record comments you leave on blogs and have others follow you at the main site?
Mark Sierra at MeAndMyDrum.coms last blog post..What Do Comments Do For You? For Your Blog?
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@Mark
I love a smarty pants
Yeppers, but much better in my opinion. Search is cleaner, with more options to pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for — and this one has a similar Twitter interface, which I find much easier to use. Thanks!
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@Freddie
Thanks so much. I appreciate you letting me know these are helpful.
@Ben Yep, I definitely feel like BackType has potential.
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BackType The Twitter for Comments AND Valuable Resource…
BackType is the new Twitter for comments, according to Tech Crunch. A quick look at what all the hype is about….
after looking at backtype I can see the protential it could have after it catches on. I did a few searches on different people at it was interesting enough sto see where they have left comments.
Bruno Augers last blog post..Home Business Ideas - Online Money Making
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@Bruno I agree. It just needs to get out of the IM bubble LOL and it would be great
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Hey, thanks so much for checking out BackType and for all the feedback.
Mike
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Mike Montanos last blog post..BackType, A Twitter For Comments
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Wow really neat feature pulling in the last item from my feed. I like it!
Mike Montanos last blog post..BackType, A Twitter For Comments
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@Mike As soon as I saw the BackType post on Tech Crunch, I had to. Great tool
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Interesting Maria…trying it out and seeing if it clutters or de-clutters my social media life - yes, the ultimate test!
Alycia de Mesas last blog post..Pint Sized Olympic Brand Marketing
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@Alycia For me, I think it will be a go-to-when-I-need-it thing
Do research, find quotes, follow my favorite gurus 
Thanks for stopping by.
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Sweet tool! Thanks for the tip. I thought of like 10 things I could use this one for.
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[...] for Web Success Diva (Maria) for tipping me off on [...]
This is going to be very viral and an excellent cross promotional tool for bloggers.
I’m here because you tipped off Jack Humphrey who prompted his followers to have a look.
Kenny Ritchies last blog post..Free or paid autoresponders
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Sorry Maria - expect more of the riff raff from my site to stumble over here. Most of them are harmless, but they will eat up some bandwidth getting into all your pages.
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@Jack your riff raff is better than any other traffic I know
Bunch of sharp guys (and gals) so they can eat all the bandwidth they need 
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Is he speaking about the 13th word of that last comment.
Thanks for the post anyway.
Kenny Ritchies last blog post..Save yourself time money and effort.
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