You should see a little tab on the left side of the blog window listing the number of tweets since your last visit to the site.  I’m not quite sure how it words yet, but it looked interesting, so I’m giving it a try.

It’s called Tweetboard, and it’s in alpha release.  You can find them on Twitter at @140ware.  As far as I can tell, you can click on the tab to see recent Tweets and responses.   There might be more to it, but I haven’t figured that out yet.

For now, 140ware is auto-approving requests but confirmation notices are delayed (I signed up last night and haven’t seen a confirmation notice yet).  That means, if you’ve requested it, just go to the support site and follow instructions — it should work.   To install, you copy and paste a line of code in your template above the  body tag and insert your Twitter username where the code says “insertTwitterusernamehere” or something equally obvious.

If I find I don’t like it, all I have to do is edit that line of code out of my template.  We’ll see how it goes.  Initially, I’ve noticed some slowness, but I suspect that’s due to the new release.

If you click on it, let me know what you see and if you think it is worth playing with or not.  For now, I still have the Twitter Widget installed in the right hand column.  If I keep Tweetboard, I’ll probably delete the widget as redundant.  If you can do anything with the tab, let me know — that seems like it might be worthwhile, but I don’t see how it can be used that way as it’s configured.  Here’s why I ask:

“Each time your website visitors post via your Tweetboard, a link back to the corresponding conversation is appended to their tweet, creating a viral stream of traffic proportional to the volume of tweeting performed via your Tweetboard.”

From that statement, it sounds like you could tweet from the board.  I suspect that means you could, if you found the board on other sites, tweet from any of those boards after logging in and giving Twitter approval connect.   I would hope you wouldn’t have to give permission for each TweetBoard you come across, but I’m not sure yet.