You may have noticed a shiny new button on the top right corner of TweetMeme saying Sign in with Twitter on it.  This is our shiny new user login page.

When you are logged in via Twitter OAuth you can retweet items without having to be redirected to twitter, you click the ‘retweet’ and we send the tweet for you in the background. This lets you more easily browse content without having to open multiple windows. More importantly any ‘tweetmeme buttons’ you see on external sites now can be clicked and retweeted again without being redirected to twitter.When you click on a re-tweet button we will automate those re-tweets for you which means you can concentrate on the content and we will concentrate on your re-tweets.

Enjoy the new features that you find here and if you have any problems then let us know on the forum or Tweet @tweetmemedev or @talktweetmeme

Today we launched a shiny new feature called the TweetMeme Bar.  And I’m betting that you want to know what it does, how it does it and so on!  Well here’s the basic info… and when I manage to get Daniel in front of the video camera then I’ll also pop up a video of him going through all the cool ins and outs of the bar with you!  For now however you’ll have to cope with my geeky descriptions of it all!

As you can see from the image above (you’ll need to click on it to see it properly though) going from left to right… We have our logo, then the re-tweet button including the number of times the link has been retweeted the name of the link text and then the information view options of All, News, Images or Video’s.  Hit the re-tweet button and we’ll re-tweet the url that you are on.  Hit home and we take you back home to our site… or if you’re curious and just want to browse to any random re-tweet site then hit the shuffle button and off you go!

The Shuffle button opens up a bar above stories and allows you to ‘shuffle’ through stories that TweetMeme has found, this is gives you a unparalleled resource of interesting content. TweetMeme aggregates 200,000+ new links/stories/video/images every day and you have access to all of them. Just like the main site the bar lets you filter down by category and by the media type so you can discover things of interest to you.

We are very aware that some users do not like ‘framing’ of content and although the bar is ‘opt-out’ the first time you close the bar it prompts you immediately if you no longer wish to have the bar. It is also one click away on our settings pop-up to turn it on and off.

We think the logged in experience and tweetmeme bar make fantastic partners as you can shuffle through content and retweet what you like without leaving the page

We’re really excited about the TweetMeme bar and we do hope you like it.  We’re finding it really fun when browsing websites to find what sites have our re-tweet button on it.

TweetMeme is having a service update at the moment and will be back up shortly. You’ll see the buttons on your sites showing the ? but don’t worry as soon as the database is back online and available we’ll be servicing the button again.

Please don’t panic! It’ll all be just fine!

With the Next 09 Conference starting out today and continuing through to tomorrow we’ve added a TweetMeme feed showing the news and pictures coming out of the site.  The links so far are looking interesting and I’m sure they will continue to fly in and make for some really interesting reading for anyone who’s looking to what’s going to be the next big thing on the web.

You can follow the channel here.

If you want us to follow your event or want a custom channel then do let us know by contacting us on twitter!

Today we got a short but surprising e-mail.  It was from Gov. Schwarzenegger’s technical team, they were integrating our TweetMeme button into their website!  So we thought we’d nip over and see how they were getting on with it.  Lo and behold it was up and in the Newsroom area of the site for all their latest press releases!

We have to say we were pretty impressed at them integrating the button into the site, we’d had no direct contact with them until that e-mail and all of a sudden there it was right up there.  I wonder how they heard about it and who told them…  We do hope other companies start looking at this and see how it can benefit them getting their press releases and latest news onto the Twittersphere.

So if you are inspired by the use of our button on the California State and want it on your own site all you need to do is pop here and install it!