The Fearless Blogger

TwitterRemote, developed by The Next Web, is a nifty new way to see which Twitter users are visiting your website:

TwitterRemote is a small widget you can embed on your site, blog or social profile which displays which Twitter users recently visited your blog. The catch: those Twitter users do have to sign into TwitterRemote first. For now we actually have to ask people for their username + password. As soon as Twitter launched OAuth we will skip that step completely.

After twitter users sign in their profile is displayed on every TwitterRemote enabled website they visit after that. The advantage for site owners is that they see who visits their site and they even have an opportunity to contact these people. Twitter users get a change to improve their visibility for site owners and other visitors. It is kinda like MyBlogLog, or FaceBook connect, but for Twitter!

Here’s an example of the widget (which can be customized with the width & colors of your preference):

To see another example: I had an opportunity to preview the widget yesterday – it’s now a new feature of The Fearless Blogger sidebar, if you’d like to give it a try!  I’m a fan of having visibility to who visits my blog in general.  Although MyBlogLog offers a similar fuction, I think more people are likely to have Twitter accounts than MyBlogLog ones.

An added bonus is TwitterRemote also give readers a place to tweet from my site – announcing to me (or the Twitterverse) that they’ve stopped by.  Following readers onTwitter is an unobtrusive way to get a sense of what their interests are and engage with them beyond comments and RSS feeds.

As mentioned, the widget has just been released, so the folks at The Next Web will likely be making some tweaks and improvements over the next weeks.

To learn more, read The Next Web’s original post announcing TwitterRemote, or get your own here.

(special thanks to @boris for the opportunity to help test TwitterRemote!)

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