Twittch Comments
September 26th, 2009
I created Twittch 161 days ago. Shortly after launching the web site, I added the Google Friend Connect social bar, allowing people to “join” and leave comments.
So now, 52 comics later, the statistics are not impressive:
- 38 total comments
- zero spam (great!)
- 9 of the comments were from me, replying to other comments
- 1 comment was along the lines of “where did my last comment go?”
So basically, after 5+ months people left around 28 comments. Here are the Analytics stats:
- 167,728 visits
- 145,880 absolute unique visitors
- 412,014 pageviews
I’m not sure how to explain it, because I receive far more comments here with Wordpress and an annoying CAPTCHA that probably deters a lot of people from commenting. I considered replacing the Friend Connect Social Bar with their Comments gadget instead, but ultimately I decided to give Disqus a shot instead.
I will follow up after a few weeks (and some new comics) to let you know how it goes.
As one of the 38, I only did it because I had not seen a google friend connect bar before. I haven’t used one since either. Maybe it is a good thing but the fact that nobody uses it probably means its doomed. I have seen a lot lately about how Google Wave will suffer the same fate…
I had no idea what that’s what the bar was actually for. For me, it’s a spatial thing, I expect something to comment with at the bottom of the page, and there was nothing. In hindsight, it’s pretty obvious that the bar was there for comments.
I thoroughly enjoy Twittch but have never felt the need to comment. Maybe I’ll start leaving you kudos.
I like the other stuff you write about much more then your comics, so I also end up commenting on that stuff, but on comics not so much.