CrossTalk Comments and Live Chat

Like many Millennials, I too saw the internet grow. From Facebook & GTalk Chat to the ever-so-often “Twitter is over capacity” page The internet back then, was FUN! A literal wild west, a no-man’s land, each website a new adventure waiting to happen. The companies that invented Social Media back then, have today trapped us in walled gardens as they prioritise user retention through curated content, restricted APIs, and proprietary algorithms. Reddit was fun, for a while, until it too went down the path paved by its predecessors. Forums I used to visit, disappeared one by one. People whom I knew for years just by their obscure @username and our shared fondness of Mecha, gone. And with such websites closing, so did the chance of having these sort of random encounters. Frustrated, in my free time, I created CrossTalk. An Audience Engagement Platform that, if existed, I’d be a happy user of. But since it did not, I created it myself 😤 CrossTalk lets you embed Live Chat on your website, so everyone who’s on the same Page, can talk to each other without leaving your website. It gives your audience a sense of Community, as they see same usernames frequently and join the discussion. Even if they just stay to read, a community is eventually nurtured and grows. This community is unique to your website, if the same users go to a different website, they might see different users talking about different content and hence a different relationship and community grows there too. As a website owner, building a community means even if your content is similar to competition, audience will frequent back to your website and spend a lot longer talking to others or just reading Your Average Time per User, Ad Revenue and User Retention greatly increases while User Bounce decreases