When someone posts a photo with a tweet using Twitpic or Tweetphoto a thumbnail is show. Clicking the thumbnail will link to the full-sized photo.
Interact with Tweets
When you hover your mouse over any tweet, buttons are revealed on the right-side of the tweet. The top icon will reply to that tweeter, the middle icon will retweet and the bottom will add that tweet to your favorites.
Show Conversations
Also below some tweets is a "show conversation" link where a possible conversation is detected. Click this link to reveal the conversation.
Conversations
A conversation box is loaded inline showing the tweets back and forth. The yellow highlighted tweet is the source tweet you clicked to view the conversation.
Internal user experience
Unlike othet twitter mashups, almost all of the links on WebcomicTweets stay internal making for a more streamlined user experience. We automatically detect hashtags and @users and turn them into links. These links are internal pages, so you never leave WebcomicTweets.
Real-Time Tweet Updates
On most pages there is a "auto-update" button in the top-right. This will enable the tweet stream on that page to auto-update when any new tweets are made. New tweets will appear every 10 seconds, so if there is a flood of new tweets you have time to view them.
You can pause and restart the realtime update of tweets by toggling the button.
View "more" tweets (archive)
At the bottom of the tweet stream is often a "more.." button, this will load the next page of tweets. WebcomicTweets archives all webcomic tweets so you can go back through tweets farther than 'Twitter.com search' allows.
Search
At the top of the page is a search box, use this so search all of twitter.
List of Webcomic Twitters
Webcomictweets maintains a detailed list of webcomic tweeters. The list can be filtered and sorted in many ways.
Webcomicers with Facebook
The site tracks the other social media webcomicers use, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, formspring and tumblr.
Popularity
Popularity is tracked by WebcomicTweets & determined by how many mentions of that username or name in the last several months.
Hashtag List
WebcomicTweets also maintains a list of webcomic hashtags used on Twitter. Popularity and last-used time are tracked for each hashtag.
Cross Browser Support
WebcomicTweets is a fully XHTML compliant site and has been tested on all major browsers. Even older browsers like IE6 work fine.
Site Optimized
Page loading speed is a top priority for WebcomicTweets. All pages with a tweet stream are loaded first then the tweets are loaded after using ajax. so your pageloading is never slowed down.
Almost all tweet streams are also cached locally, so they will load fast, even if Twitter.com is down (which happens a lot!).
The design of the site is a lightweight tableless markup for fast rendering. The filesize of the pages is optimized along with many other factors to make the site load as fast as possible.
WebcomicTweets is a fully functional Twiter client. You can login with your twitter account to perform many interactions with the site. You can post tweets, photos, retweet, follow users and more! Your login info is not stored permanently and is safe & secure. WebcomicTweets WILL NEVER tweet without your own consenting action.
Online users
On most pages you can view how many people are currently using WebcomicTweets and now many are viewing the same page you are.
User Panel
When you are logged in you get some user links in the top-right. Clicking your mini-avatar image will goto your homepage where you can view all your friends tweets and post new tweets yourself. Clicking the @username link will show any tweets directed at you. The star icon will show your favorites and the 'account' link will link to your account settings on twitter.com.
Posting Tweets
You can post new tweets right from WebcomicTweets, click the red "POST" button in the top-right to reveal the post box.
You can type out your tweet will full URLs then click the "shorturls" button to have them automatically shortened!
Post Twit Pics
Click the "twitpic" button to select a picture that will be uploaded to twitpic and included in your tweet.
Auto-Tagging
Depending on what page you are currently viewing when you click the "post" button, the postbox will be pre-populated with the @user or hashtag of the page you are viewing.
Statistics & Trends
WebcomicTweets tracks many stats and trends and this data is available on the statisitcs page. Stats can be viewed by month.
Recent Photo Stream
When viewing many pages there is a block on the right-side showing the most recent tweeted photos for that stream.
WebcomicTweets tracks any links included in tweets then find which links have been tweeted the most. The popular links page shows the top links of the day and of the last 2 weeks.
Follow
When viewing any user page you will see follow/unfollow links, you can follow users right from WebcomicTweets (this syncs with Twitter.com).
User Details
When viewing a user page of a person that is tracked by WebcomicTweets you will see some additional details. Some links to external sites with more info on that person and a graph showing how many followers they have each month.
Recent Users Links
When viewing a users page there is a block on the right showing the most recent links they have tweeted.
Talkback
On each user page there are 2 columns, the left showing that users tweets and the right showing tweets directed @ that user.
Search & filter stats
When using the search and filter features a "search stats" & "top contributors" box will appear on the right column. These boxes show some stats on your search.
