Many users have been asking us for the ability to customise the title that the TweetMeme button sends as part of its tweet. However, we’ve been generally wary of providing this functionality as it has the potential to make the button behave in an unpredictable way – specifically, it would allow the site owner to use their users for spam.
The main reason this feature has been requested so much is so that content authors can separate a site/blog title from the content title. For example, a page with the title “TweetMeme Blog » Retweet Button Explained” would result in the following tweet:
RT @talkTweetMeme TweetMeme Blog » Retweet Button Explained http://retwt.me/33K
Since the blog title offers little value to the tweet, it would be preferable to remove it. This is now possible using the new TweetMeme Wordpress Plugin 1.6, or manually using the “tweetmeme-title” meta-tag for other platforms.
Adding this tag to the HEAD section (between the <head> and </head> tags) of a page will override it’s title:
Of course, many websites use automated systems to generate their page titles, for example, in Wordpress you can use the following in your header.php template and all blog posts will use the post title as the text of the tweet:
There is one major caveat to this system. Our systems require the tweetmeme-title to be a strict subset of the page title. i.e. The tweetmeme-title must be derived directly from your original page title – if it is not, it will be ignored. This is to ensure that the tweet the button sends can always be predicted by the user to be relevant to the page they are reading.
On Tuesday we promised regular updates on who the top commenters are on our site that are getting re-tweeted for their comments in the TweetMeme Comment competition so here goes in most re-tweeted order!
Comment: I value and enjoy things. Belief is an overused word in the US. Comment: For those who have not witnessed religious “nuttery” at it’s best, watch these videos.
Comment: Looking forward to that, hope its API related Comment: II found this on the Twetmeme Blog . It basically means that if you are logged on here and happen to tweet from anywhere via the Tweetmeme buton, the tweet is posted automatically without intervention from you.
Quote follows:
The current retweet button is a clever little thing – it can redirect you to Twitter to retweet but also if your logged into TweetMeme (via OAuth) it sends the tweet behind the scenes and leaves you on the site you were currently browsing, this we call ‘one-click retweeting’. The downside is that Javascript can only live in certain places on the web, i.e. in a web browser.
Comment: Pretty Elzabeth Arden is the inspiration for the Make the World a Prettier place campaign http://codenamemax.com/
Curious about our competition and what you might win… (there are some pretty nice prizes so it’s worth taking a peak!) You’ll find all the details in our Competition blog post. Get Commenting and Get Re-Tweeting!
Today we are launching a shiny new TweetMeme competition. As many of you know, we recently released our new TweetMeme platform which included our comments system. Well just to get you all started using the system and to see how you find the comment system we thought we’d have a little fun in the form of our comments competition. Here’s how it will work.
The Best Comment
What we are looking for is the best comment that you can create around one of the posts on our site. The comment must be created on our system and re-tweeted through the site. The individual with the highest number of re-tweets of a comment will win our competition.
How to enter
STEP 1 – Login
Login to TweetMeme (this requires a Twitter account – if you don’t have one? go here
STEP 2 – Find
Find a story that you find interesting – click on comments – or the ‘more’ button.
STEP 3 – Comment
Leave a comment and have it send it back to Twitter (this is the default behaviour) – get your friends to retweet your comment.
STEP 4 – Spread the word
Spread the word about the competition and about your comments on our site! Lets see how far and wide you can get your cool and interesting comments. This competition will be running for 7 days 1 month from today and we will do a daily update here on the blog on who our top 10 comment re-tweeters are! We will announce the winner and runners up on the 8th October around 5pm GMT.
PS the most amusing comment that I see may also get a sneaky little prize too! And anyone I see just spamming will get removed! Spam is EVIL!
What could you win?
First Place – An EEE PC Netbook, a TweetMeme Tshirt and stickers.
Second Place – An IPod Touch 16gb , a TweetMeme Tshirt and stickers.
Third Place – A Flip HD, a TweetMeme Tshirt and stickers.
5 Runners up will get a TweetMeme Tshirt and stickers.
Terms & Conditions for this competition can be found here.
We are pleased to announce that today all comments left on TweetMeme will get shortened with the URL http://rep.ly – this will be exclusively used for comments so your followers when seeing a comment will always know you have just left a comment on TweetMeme.
Secondly we have made the integration with Twitter even better now allowing you to seamlessly reply to any Tweet on twitter that was associated with a particular story. This means you can quickly start a conversation with those who are already interested in that story.
Features
Each comment can be retweeted (either within TweetMeme or back on Twitter by retweeting the rep.ly link)
rep.ly exclusively used for comments
You can reply to more than one twitter user
Can reply to tweets + comments at the same time
Can embed video, images + stories
Thread view for individual comments
Live-updates
You can join the discussion on the new features here
Did you know that when you are logged into TweetMeme (via Twitter OAuth) that the retweet button becomes even simpler to use, No? Well I have recorded a very quick video that explains the difference between logged-in and logged-out
Europe-Unlimited, Europe’s leading event organisers for investors and technology companies, today revealed its 2009 Tech Media Invest Top 100 list, in association with The Guardian, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Kemp Little. And there in our inbox was an announcement that we are one of the top 100 tech media companies for investors and others to keep an eye on! What can we say! There’s been a lot of hard work behind the scenes at TweetMeme to keep our product and related services fresh and fun. It’s great to hear that The Guardian like what we are doing and we will continue to improve and grow with time.
According the the Guardian we were chosen for our creativity, innovation as a great social media site. There were only 10 in our category which is a real surprise to me! I would have expected there to be more but that makes it all the more special to the TweetMeme team!
Thank you to those who were involved in putting the list together and we look forward to a bright future!
Amongst the many new features we launched as part of V2 was the new bookmarklet – this is a really simple button that you drag into your bookmark toolbar on your browser – and when you are on any blog, video, image – in fact any website you can press the TweetMeme button and it will take you to the story page for that site back onto TweetMeme, that then gives you a quick and easy way to RETWEET or comment.
I have included the Bookmarklet below – just click and drag it onto your bookmark toolbar.
@Totally_Toni if you turn it back on and then click where you see the ? it will tell you the cause. :) 2009/11/20
@Totally_Toni I suspect that what you are experiencing is a conflict with 1 of your other plugins as its not currently showing on your site. 2009/11/20
