We have just released the second phase of our major revamp of tweetmeme. In this phase we are bringing you a lot of new and exciting features, including inline images, paging and a tweetmeme button.
The button
We have just launched a retweet button, which enables blog owners and site authors to add the functionality of retweeting their web page. The button also gives you a total number of times your webpage has been tweeted. This tool utilizes the massive power of twitter to help promote your blog.
Paging
Tweetmeme originally only allowed you to browse the top 10 tweets in any one category, now with the paging implemented you can easily browse all the popular tweets on twitter.
Inline images
If the tweet is a image then we can automatically grab the image and show you a little preview.
Please drop us a line if you have any feedback via the comments or tweet me
Kudos on the new goodies, very nice. Getting a 404 on your main feed though.
John,
Apologies for that – somehow we knocked out the RSS generator, fixed now.
The button is nice. Is there a way to add a hashtag and specify my own URL shortener so I can track these more easily?
Hi Fritz,
Good idea on the own URL shortener – we can look at adding an extra variable to the javascript to override the shortened URL – but you would have to supply this for each link you used it on.
Nick
Thanks Nick. It appears you rotate among several shorteners? Not sure I’d use the feature myself, just brainstorming.
Fritz, yes – but only because we pick the shortener (from a preferred list) that the person who originally tweeted the story, if the original person used a full url – we then wait for the next person who retweet’s it.. if we dont get a shortened url before we need to display it on the site, then we create a bit.ly url…
The general idea is to try and not have to shorten anything ourselves, as with 100,000′s of links per day we dont want to have to shorten them all ourselves
Fritz, after looking into the problem of specifying your own URL shortener we have decided that it isn’t really possible with the current widget.
Daniel