Realtidbits Comments

Turn Every Article into a Real-time Conversation

Realtidbits Comments increases user engagement and time spent on your website by enabling conversation to easily unfold in real-time without the user ever having to refresh the page. Easily manage posts using automatic filtering, advanced moderation tools and more.

Streamline Usage with Social Login & Sharing

Users can login with their credentials from over 25 popular social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo! and OpenID, and easily share content out to social networks for viral distribution. Realtidbits Comments also supports ‘Backplane Protocol’, an open standard which allows seamless single sign-on with your website’s existing login system.

Attach Photos & Videos
Follow the Conversation

Allow users to add images to their comments via upload or create video instantly using your webcam along with the ability to preview them before posting. "Follow conversation" to get email notifications when someone adds a new comment or reply. If you reply via email it will post back to the page's comments stream. Users can subscribe to receive updates via RSS as well.

Social Likes: Display The Faces of Engaged Users

As with everything on the social web, faces matter. With Realtidbits ‘Social Likes’ feature, users can see the names and faces of those who liked a given comment, driving more conversation and engagement.

Social Sync: Reactions from the rest of the web

Echo was the first to begin aggregating reactions about your content from social networks. Users can engage with tweets and facebook posts just like any other comment and your moderation team has full control over whether to delete or promote each post. Automatic spam and bad word filters help ensure that only appropriate content is shown.

Highlight Top Comments

Feature “Top comments” or highlight a “Hot” comment to your users, either manually through moderator controls or set rules for dynamic display in real time based on social metrics such as number of likes received.

Notification of New Comments

As users consume content on your site, inform them in real time of new comments that appear below the fold, thereby keeping them actively engaged!

Inline Media

When users leave links to YouTube videos or other rich media (Spotify, Twitter, Instragram), those assets are automatically pulled into the comment thread for others to see and interact with.

Streamlined Moderation

A robust set of moderation tools including Spam Detection, Bad Word Filtering, Community Flagging, Multiple Moderators, User Banning, Pre-Moderation Modes and more are included. Moderators can approve or delete inappropriate posts right from the user interface or via a moderation dashboard. Users can flag comments and replies to let you know when content is objectionable.

Mobile Friendly

Users can add and reply to comments easily from any mobile device. A robust API is also available for mobile app integration.

Real-time Updates

All comments flow into the stream in real-time without the need for the user to refresh the page.

Echo Enabled

Realtidbits Comments seamlessly interoperates with a wide range of other real-time apps available through Echo’s App Ecosystem and is developed using Echo SDK 3.0. This enables marketers, product teams and developers to weave holistic, immersive experiences that are on par with leading social networks. Learn more

Supported by Echo Business Services

Choosing an app for your site is not just about software, it’s about partnering with a world class team who can help with strategic planning, implementation, support and an innovative roadmap that leads the industry. Echo is your partner for the real-time web. Learn more

Powered by the Echo Platform

The Echo Platform is the world’s first, largest and most powerful real-time web platform. Use it to get deep access to social activity data or build custom experiences that interoperate with the full ecosystem of Echo Enabled apps. Learn more

Textile Markup Support

Support for safeHTML formatting in comments. Textile takes plain text with *simple* markup and produces valid XHTML.

Works Everywhere

You can embed Realtidbits Comments anywhere Javascript can be embedded. Supports any content management system without the need for integration.

Enterprise Grade

Realtidbits Comments is designed for high volume websites and scales to support large spikes in traffic and engagement. Premium Support offers 99.5% and 99.9% SLA’s.