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You know Gravatars, right? With Gravatars, people who comment on your blog have a photo associated with their e-mail address. When they comment on your blog, their photo automatically shows up. Twinkylinks is the same thing, except it’s a link to your commenter’s Twitter account.
Twinkylinks allows you to better connect with your readers,
and allows your readers to better connect with one another.
It’s easy.
<?php comment_author_link() ?><iframe class="twinkylinks" frameborder="0" src="http://twinkylinks.com/l/<?php echo md5(strtolower($comment->comment_author_email)); ?>.html" style="border:0;display:inline-block;height:18px;margin:0;overflow:hidden;padding:0;vertical-align:middle;width:18px;margin-left:5px;margin-top:-5px"></iframe>
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Actually, you don’t need to create a Twinkylinks account! Just take care of Step 2 and you’re done here.
We’ll e-mail you a special code. Just post that code to Twitter to verify your account and you’re done!
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It’s a link between the comments you make on other peoples’ blogs and your Twitter account. It’s totally free, and takes 20 seconds to set up.
When you comment on blogs, other people reading the comments might want to know more about you. Twinkylinks makes it easy for them to check out your Twitter stream. Once you set up the link between your e-mail address and your Twitter account (by filling out the form at the top of this page) and verify your account by posting a special code on Twitter (we’ll e-mail it to you), you don’t have to do anything. We do the rest for you.
Not really. You *do* need to tell us your e-mail address and your Twitter username (that form up at the top of this page). We’ll e-mail you a unique verification code, and you’ll post the code on Twitter. Doing that verifies that you are, in fact, you. After that, you don’t have to do anything else.
The cool thing about Twinkylinks is that once you set it up, you don’t have to do *anything*. Any blog that has Twinkylinks set up will show a link to your Twitter account.
We have a little block of code that blog authors can put in their blog’s comment section. When you leave a comment on a blog, one of the fields is the e-mail address (“required, never shown”). The block of code we give blog authors does some programming magic, requests a link to your Twitter account from us, and we give it to them. This all happens behind the scenes, instantly.
It really is.
So glad you asked! It’s as easy as copying-and-pasting a small block of code. Click here to find out more.
Absolutely not. We don’t want anything to do with your passwords.
Charlie Park (half of PearBudget and Monotask).
We get to tell you about Monotask. Monotask helps you (temporarily) turn off the parts of the internet that distract you from your work. Like Twitter. : )
A basic Monotask account is free. Check it out. →
Absolutely not. We hate spam as much as you do.
We wouldn’t dream of it. We hate it when services do that. Furthermore, we can’t (we don’t have your password).
Just fill out the form (above) with your new info. We’ll e-mail you a new verification code for you to post to Twitter. Easy.
It’s possible the e-mail we sent you got caught in a spam filter. If you have a spam folder, see if there’s something from us. It’s also possible that you mis-typed your e-mail address. Just fill out the form again, and we’ll send you another e-mail. Easy-peasy.
E-mail’s a good way. And on Twitter, we’re @twinkylinks.
Nothing we can think of. … Oh! … Go check out Monotask!
We have a little block of code that you can put in your blog’s comment section. When people leave a comment on your blog, one of the fields you probably ask them for is their e-mail address (“required, never shown”). The block of code we give you checks with our database to see if that e-mail address has set up a Twinkylink, and then gives your blog the link to their Twitter stream. This all happens behind the scenes, instantly.
Apart from pasting the code into the comments section of your blog template, you don’t have to do anything.
It’s better than a plugin. It’s just a single block of code you paste into your comments.php file. But if you want to think of it like a plugin, that works.
Yup. It’s free.
Sure thing. Check out the comments at SimpleMom.
So glad you asked! It’s as easy as copying-and-pasting a small block of code. See how to add Twinkylinks to your blog here.
Absolutely. Just check out our “adding Twinkylinks to Thesis” info.
Easy. The one thing you need to know is how your forum calls the forum members’ e-mail addresses. It’s probably something like “<?php member_email() ?>” or something similar. Just take the block of code and replace the part that says “$comment->comment_author_email” with your forum’s code for calling forum members’ e-mail addresses.
Absolutely not. We don’t want anything to do with your passwords.
Charlie Park (half of PearBudget and Monotask).
Heavens, no. We built Twinkylinks to work seamlessly alongside Gravatar. If you don’t use Gravatars on your blog, that’s fine, too.
E-mail’s a good way. And on Twitter, you can ping us @twinkylinks.
Here you go: How to put Twinkylinks on your blog.
Nothing we can think of. … Oh! … Go check out Monotask!
Twinkylinks is an ironic distraction, courtesy of the team at Monotask.
You should check Monotask out here.