Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
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Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
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Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
#2maybe you'd want to let people watch your video without having to tweet it. just a suggestion.
Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
#3maybe you'd want to let people watch your video without having to tweet it. just a suggestion.
I think that's pretty much the raison d'être of this site, though.
Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
#4This is a clever idea, it is however very horrible for users. I would close a page if this was requested of me, although you may have some luck with people in the "social media" field.
If I was running this site I would have it create a prompt at the end of the video that says "oh hey if you enjoyed this why not share on Twitter?" but I guess Youtube already supports that natively... sort of.
Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
#5This is a clever idea, it is however very horrible for users. I would close a page if this was requested of me, although you may have some luck with people in the "social media" field. If I was running this site I would have it create a prompt at the end of the video that says "oh hey if you enjoyed this why not share on Twitter?" but I guess Youtube already supports that natively... sort of.
Not everything that asks something of users is bad for users. I think it's an awesome idea.
Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
#6maybe you'd want to let people watch your video without having to tweet it. just a suggestion.
That's next on the list. It's been the #1 request so far: a "just show me the video" link. Perhaps the publisher has an option of enabling in the setup process.
Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
#7Nice, I'd personally like to see an option to allow users to dismiss the dialog and not tweet but still see the video.
I can see some uses for forcing a tweet but also for not forcing it.
Well done for diving in and learning something new.
Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
#8This is a clever idea, it is however very horrible for users. I would close a page if this was requested of me, although you may have some luck with people in the "social media" field. If I was running this site I would have it create a prompt at the end of the video that says "oh hey if you enjoyed this why not share on Twitter?" but I guess Youtube already supports that natively... sort of.
Not everything that asks something of users is bad for users. I think it's an awesome idea.
It's not asking something of a user, it's forcing them. If this was optional it would be asking. I think it would be great if it was optional and showed at the end of the video, why would you tweet about a video you've not yet seen?
Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
#9I have to laugh, because although I don't think I'd do this, most of my clients are pageview hungry media sites, and they would love this. I'd say within a month one of them will ask me if it's feasible to implement.
This reminds me in some ways of SolveMedia (the CAPTCHA that forces users to engage with advertisers). What if you forced someone to tweet a CAPTCHA (I'm commenting on this hot new video, check it out!) and then used the Twitter API to verify?
Re: Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com
#10The fundamental problem here is that I don't know if I want to tweet about a video before I watch it. A tweet is like an endorsement, especially when you have the extreme burden of more than 10 twitter followers (as I have) - you have a responsibility to your adoring public to ensure you fill your stream with high quality, relevant content.
All jest aside, I think it's a great idea to have the ability to tweet during a video as a seamless experience.
You've chosen a great example with Mixergy. Andrew's interviews are LOOONG and I'm frightfully busy. I love watching his videos but I rarely make it through to the end. If I have a tab open with hootsuite in it I'll quite often hop across and tweet that I just watched the video, if the video were totally awesome I'd open up a tab to get to hootsuite and tweet about it but if it's nice and interesting but not bone shatteringly good, no-one but me and Wistia's video hosting stats will know that I watched it.
If, however, the "Are you enjoying this video? Click to tweet about it right now" came up during the first half of a video, I'd be far more likely to spread the word about what I'm watching more often. Obviously it would have to be less obtrusive than it is now and it shouldn't interrupt the flow of the video at all.