Following on from the previous Something for the Weekend, Twickie, which allows you to collect responses to a question posted on Twitter, this tool allows you to present a conversation – with impressive control. 

QuoteURL allows you to drag and drop (or copy and paste) Twitter tweet URLs to reconstruct a conversation.

Here’s one I prepared earlier:

1. 
   dirkthecow great article on the “daily me” or how the Internet is narrowing our viewpoints, from Nicholas Kristof in the NYT http://bit.ly/lsH3 19 Mar 2009 from TweetDeck
2. 
   paulbradshaw @dirkthecow I disagree. He has no evidence the Internet will make that worse. 19 Mar 2009 from m.slandr.net
3. 
   dirkthecow @paulbradshaw agree he gives no evidence,but my own personal experience mirrors what he says,I follow and read stuff from people ‘like me’ 19 Mar 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to paulbradshaw
4. 
   paulbradshaw @dirkthecow but we do that offline too -he’s suggesting the net makes it worse. Evidence doesn’t back that up. 19 Mar 2009 from Tweetie in reply to dirkthecow
5. 
   dirkthecow @paulbradshaw but isn’t it so that when we all watched the evening news we were forced to hear different opinions, now we filter them more? 19 Mar 2009 from Tweetie in reply to paulbradshaw
6. 
   paulbradshaw @dirkthecow one stat sticks out in my mind: 46% of people come across news stories while searching for something else 19 Mar 2009 from Tweetie in reply to dirkthecow
7. 
   dirkthecow @paulbradshaw another interesting piece is this one on ‘homophily’ by Oliver Burkeman in The Guardian http://bit.ly/5qPXJ 19 Mar 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to paulbradshaw

— this quote was brought to you by quoteurl

The tool allows you to include up to 4 tweets without registering, 10 if you have, and more if you pay for an account (not available at the moment).

There are a few weaknesses to the service – when I tried it you couldn’t actually see any more than 4 tweets – although they were clearly being stored: you have to work ‘blind’ so to speak.

And it seems you cannot have more than 1 consecutive tweet by the same person.

What is nice is that you can have more than 2 people involved in the conversation, and tweets seem to be arranged chronologically, so you can drag them in in any order.

If you have a play with it, let me know how you get on – or any uses you can see.

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