During a series of tweets with digital strategist Warren Sukernek (@warrenss) earlier today, he asked about tagging Twitter messages to Delicious.
This got me thinking and googling–and led me to Tagth.is, a month-old service enabling anyone with a Twitter account to automatically tag web links to their Delicious or Magnolia social bookmarking accounts.
It’s a clever concept, which to my knowledge does not exist anywhere else. While TwitterFeed allows me to send new blog posts to Delicious, that has nothing to do with links that my Twitter friends use in their messages.
Tagth.is was created by Michiel Berger (@michielb), co-founder of European web analytics firm Nedstat. It’s so new that it’s only been dugg 17 times so far.
If you want to convert your friends’ Twitter message links into tags:
- Follow @tagthis.
- Create an account at http://tagth.is. You’ll be asked to confirm your email address and verify your Twitter and Delicious/Ma.gnolia accounts.
- Start tagging.
Tagging links involve the @ and # characters:
- Send a public tweet as a reply to @tagthis, e.g. @tagthis http://ariwriter.com #blog (which will bookmark that link according to its title, and use blog as a tag. All tags must be preceded by the # character.)
- Send a tweet as normal to a friend or to no one in particular but use #tagthis, e.g. I recently visited http://ariwriter.com #blog #tagthis (which will bookmark the link, determine the title, and use both blog and tagthis as tags, disregarding the other words)
- Send a direct message to tagthis, e.g. d tagthis http://ariwriter.com #blog (which may be the easiest as it avoids congesting the public Twitter stream)
Tagth.is is aimed at the mobile user, so you can copy the tweeted link and retweet or direct message it, as applicable, to be bookmarked for appropriate follow-up or future repository. Michiel suggests the Twitstat Mobile client is used, which has a built-in Tagth.is function.
I’ve tested it on both my BlackBerry and with TweetDeck, and I like it. Try the direct message option, or tweeting as usual and using the #tagthis and other # tags as you see fit. I’m sure you’ll like it, too.
Also, by visiting Michiel’s blog, you can watch videos on how Tagth.is works in English or Dutch.
Any questions?
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Ari, thanks for the call-out, but more importantly, thanks for discovering Tagth.is and describing how to use it. Already I have found it to be a great timesaver.
Warren Sukernek´s last blog post..I’ve got great friends
@ariherzog has a great description of how to use Tagthis for twitter. It’s a real timesaver, a great tool. [link to post]
– http://twitter.com/warrenss/statuses/1078646746
– Posted using Chat Catcher
Nice. However, I expressed a slightly different take on Twitter here: http://bloglabs.net/blog/15-reasons-twitter-must-die
Eh, this sounds like an okay twitter service, but I just saw a write up on Read/Write Web for Twitchboard which sounds much more user-friendly.
Tagth.is: Tag Your Twitter Links to Delicious or Ma.gnolia — AriWriter [link to post]
– http://twitter.com/sazbean/statuses/1079415773
– Posted using Chat Catcher
Thanks Adam, but you’re comparing apples and kumquat; totally different purposes.
Tagth.is allows you to tag links from other people, whereas Twitchboard is for your own links.
Moreover, based on the demo screenshot at twitchboard.net, the service automatically includes its own tag. Also, it looks like if I tweet the same link three times over the course of a week, there will be three different Delicious entries.
Apples and kumquats. If your goal is to bookmark your own tweeted links, then, sure, Twitchboard sounds neat. If your goal is to bookmark links from other people, Twitchboard does nothing for you.
Gotcha, Ari. My bad for skimming your write up a little too quickly. It sounds like they are indeed different – and indeed complimentary – services (not nearly as different as you make it sound). One to automatically save your own tweeted links to delicious and another to save others. Too bad they couldn’t join forces! Have a Twitter fruit salad (apples, kumquats, etc. …)