Overlooked detail?

Monday, April 28, 2008 by Dave Winer.

I was going to ask Gabe Rivera if he watched Twitter accounts to influence TechMeme. What got me on this train of thought was a piece on TechCrunch about the perennial problem of meme-watching on Twitter. Why invent something new, I wondered, when all you have to do is link the new link medium to the tried-and-true meme-watcher? 

That led me to this question -- how would Gabe know which Twitter account is associated with a given blog? He could scrape, and maybe sometimes the blog would link to a Twitter account in its margins (mine does, for example), but that seems like too much work, and it's too unreliable. 

Then I thought why not use the same mechanism we use for feed discovery? Indeed. Why not? 

<link rel="twitstream" href="http://twitter.scripting.com/daveRss.xml" /> 

What do you think? 

Update: I added the link element above to the source of Scripting News, on an experimental basis.