Twitter your books to LibraryThing
We've added integration with Twitter, the popular SMS/microblogging site. Basically, it's an easy way to add a book to your LibraryThing while standing in a bookstore, library or friend's house.Go to the new Edit your profile: Sites page to add your username. Once you follow LThing, you can direct message at any time to add a book to your library.
Example:
D LThing [ISBN or Title] #tag1, #tag2, etc.Add my wife's novel, Every Visible Thing with the tag "wishlist":
D LThing 0066212898 #wishlistAdd Huckleberry Finn:
D LThing Huckleberry FinnSearch always goes off Amazon for now. It picks the first edition if you don't specify.
Coming soon: We'll be integrating deeper soon, so you can let your Twitter friends know when you add or review books on LibraryThing.
Follow us: The LThing account will only be used to send out Twitter/LibraryThing messages. If you want to follow what I'm doing my Twitter account is LibraryThingTim.
Labels: new feature, new features, twitter
posted by Tim at 4:25 PM
21 Comments:
Excellent - will definitely be using it often for wishlisting, particularly if it's integrated with collections when they go live. Fun stuff, thanks!!!
Super idea! Way better than taking pictures of books in shops with my phone's camera and then adding them to my wishlist at a later date.
Could you set up an identi.ca / laconi.ca bot? ( http://identi.ca ) It's a free & autonomous service.
Neat feature! I just tested it, and it works well. I have a couple of suggestions:
a) get the bot to reply with a success/error message.
b) perhaps the syntax should be changed to
D Lthing add [ISBN or TITLE]
that way, you have the possibility to add extra ways of interacting with LibraryThing via twitter in future. The following two examples could be useful while in a bookshop:
D Lthing own [ISBN or TITLE]
could return a direct message saying whether the book is already on your bookshelf
D Lthing tag #wishlist
could return a list of items on your wishlist.
Hi. I seem to be having trouble. I entered my twitter handle, then followed Lthing on Twitter. then entered
d lthing book title #nonfiction #libraries
but I do not get any reply or error message and when I check my LibraryThing, the book is not there.
help?
small town librarian - it works by ISBN, not title. Put it in exactly as you have it except replace book title with ISBN and it should work.
Tim - do you know how hard I've been working to stay away from Twitter? I don't _need_ another lot of news (for some value of news) to follow. Sigh. OK, I'm holding out for the stuff alasdair suggested. If you put that in...I'm doomed.
...and as soon as I hit Publish I realized Tim had used an example with a title, so that's not it. Sigh. Is your book findable on Amazon by title alone, stl?
and I got a Blogger conflict - don't know if this one or both will show up.
Great feature! And I want to second alasdair's suggestions. They were very good as well.
Hi--this is a great feature! Using a LibraryThing blog widget I have embedded on my school library page, I can now update what I've read to the kids by sending a Twitter message. Very cool.
Unfortunately--it worked beautifully for the first attempt, and the book in my message appeared in my Library Thing account. When I tried sending the next one (to demonstrate for a bunch of librarians, of course...) it didn't work. I'm following LThing, and my Twitter account says LThing is following me, but Twitter won't let me send a direct message, and I don't appear on LThing's Twitter profile as being "followed." Any ideas?
Wow -- that's amazing! That's a new feature that I didn't know I wanted until you added it. A really great example of working with other services to give us options. Thanks!
Why is there still no tab link to the blog? A bunch of people have asked that it be restored, and I can't see any reason not to do so.
Turrean et al.,
We had an issue with some people falling of our "following" list. I just posted a little more about it at the link below, where you can discuss it further. Let me know if anything changes for you, either you reappear or can suddenly post again.
Bug thread:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/56661
I can enter books by web but not able to enter books by cell phone...any suggestions?
Hi there,
Like Jason, I think it'd be great if you can also use a Laconi.ca based service as well (of which Identi.ca is the reference and largest implementation)?
Laconica is an Open Source microblogging system which is similar to Twitter, but with a few key advantages, especially for sites like this one! The main one is that from one Laconica site, you can follow a user from another Laconica site, so if you were to implement Laconica within the LibraryThing service, users on another laconica service could send messages to your bot.
There are a couple of different API systems for Laconica, and one of them was based on Twitter's API, so, if you wanted to set this up, you'd only need to register an account at (for example) Identi.ca and copy the script you have for Twitter, and amend the base URL for the API from http://twitter.com/ to http://identi.ca/api/
I'd be glad to help out with any porting issues you may come up against.
Jon "The Nice Guy"
I misunderstood the point of this feature. I thought that we could post our LibraryThing additions to our Twitter accounts, not vice versa; personally, I have no need to add books to my LibraryThing collection via Twitter. Any plans to work on that feature?
Post informative and entertaining post in your Twitter updates. Follow people who interest you, and keep twittering.
Great idea. Can anyone tell me how long it takes from tweet to the book appearing in your collection?
Usually 2 minutes, but I turned it off today because it was erroring. Mike and I are going to look at it very soon and fix it.
I misunderstood the point of this feature. I thought that we could post our LibraryThing additions to our Twitter accounts, not vice versa; personally, I have no need to add books to my LibraryThing collection via Twitter. Any plans to work on that feature?
This is what I was looking for, too. I prefer to enter my books directly in LT, so I can get all the information in one swoop. But I'd like to share what I've added!
It would be great if we could do something similar from email. Send an email to a specific address and have a book added...
when can we expect further integration? i'd really like my twitter updated when i add a new book to LT.
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