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We are currently looking to put a case forward to Wordpress.com to get our TweetMeme button plugin into Wordpress.com as part of this effort we need to gather statistics on how many people are asking for our button to be integrated into Wordpress.com. So rather than just sitting back and waiting for the requests to come in we thought the easiest way to do this was to ask everyone who is interested in having our Re-Tweet button on their wordpress.com hosted blogs to re-tweet this article. This way we can count the number of requests for the feature we are getting. We’re going to class each re-tweet as a request for integration! If you want this feature added in but don’t yet have a twitter account then do leave us a comment to let us know you want us to count you in!
By re-tweeting all your followers and friends on Twitter will also hear about this and hopefully those followers of yours who use wordpress.com will re-tweet the article and therefore help with the request count. If you also want to blog about it then that’s fine with us too! The wider the spread the more feedback we should have and hopefully the higher the likelihood that we get the information that is needed for wordpress.com.
We look forward to hearing from everyone!
Today we got a really great e-mail into our inbox! Lee Turner who is part of the B2Evolution community has created a B2Evolution Plugin that does the equivalent to our wordpress plugin but for the B2Evolution blog engine. This means that those users who have been asking about how to integrate our button with B2Evolution can now have a nice simple way to do so. You’ll find all the information on how to install and use this plugin over on Lee’s TweetMeme plugin page.
Please direct any feedback of bug reports that you have back to Lee. This still leaves us with TypePad and better Blogger integration to go. We’re also looking into getting our plugin into Wordpress.com but we will be needing the help of the community for that one as we need to know how many of our users are wanting to install it into their Wordpress.com sites! We’ll come back soon with a post for you to register your interest in the Wordpress.com integration!
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This evening whilst at a roller disco (don’t ask!) i heard the news that Michael Jackson had been taken to hospital and early reports were pronouncing him dead.
In order to keep up with the stories and what was becoming news I went back to the Michael Jackson channel that I creates to follow the news around his concerts. No surprise but it’s now starting to fill up with the latest confirmed and unconfirmed stories.
Keep up to date with it here: Michael Jackson Channel
The shortlist for the TechCrunch Europe Europa awards are now up and we’ve been nominated in three categories so we really need the help and support of all our users!!! We need you all to vote for us!
The Twitter application and design space is a hugely competitive market and we love good friendly competition. So please pop over to TechCrunch to cast your votes! And rememeber that every vote counts! So please ask your friends, family and colleagues to also cast their vote!
The categories that you’ll find us in are:
The Europas: Best Web Application Or Service (EMEA)
The Europas: Best Design
The Europas: Best New Startup, Summer 2008-2009
Please vote for us and share the love by re-tweeting this article!
We’ve been tracking the progress of the AT & T IPhone Twitition recently to find out how long it takes for a single story to run to 10, ooo re-tweets and interestingly Patrick Altoft and the guys at Branded3 have been doing the same with Twitition.
The announcements that came out at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference caused a rather large backlash from upset IPhone customers who found that the cost of upgrade was not proportionate to the updates and new technology that come with the latest IPhone. As such a Twitition was created for people to log their request for a sensibly priced upgrade from the IPhone 3G to the IPhone 3Gs. There is also a similar Twitition for the O2 IPhone upgrade package.
The interesting things to note are that the US version of the Twitition has gone down a storm with over 12,812 people adding their signatures to it and had over 11,573 re-tweets which probably explains why the Twitition has gained so much traction. Also noted over on BlogStorm is the fact that only 10% of people who visited the Twitition site actually signed the petition. Comparing this to the UK version of the same Twitition with only 5,272 signatures and 5,119 re-tweets. So what’s different? Is it just that O2’s offering is better than the AT&T offering or do people in the UK not like signing petitions… is it the British way not to complain, even today! Either way it makes for some interesting stats.
When you start looking at how this traction has been trending in the last 24 hours, you can see how individual re-tweets can cause a flurry of activity around a tweet. Bear in mind that the graph is a rolling 24 hour graph so right now it’s showing that it’s trending late at night in the UK aka when the US are awake in the graph below.
And the general trending for the Twitition can also be seen below the increases steady but related again to the time when the US are up and online.
(Graph stats from Patrick Altoft)
The AT&T iphone twitition was started on 09/06/2009 at 02:12. It hit 10,000 signatures when envyink signed it on the 12th at 08.15.
http://www.twitter.com/envyink/status/2132319527
It’s amazing how quickly trends and tweets can spread over time… Just think about it 10,000 tweets in 78 hours and 3 minutes! It would be interesting to know what percentage of the signatories this Twitition represents for AT&T in the US and will they be making any changes in their contracts as a result.
You can read more about the Twititon over on BlogStorm.
We are on the hunt for intersting, unusual or useful places where you are finding our re-tweet button. This week has been no exception, interestingly we found that we are now on the Sky Blogs site of all places. So if you happen to read any of the sky blogs like “The Weather Girls” for example then you can now re-tweet whatever they are talking about!
As you may have already heard we are also on Governor Schwarznegger’s newsroom pages where you can read about his suggestion of replacing textbooks with digital books. Interestingly that particular story was re-tweeted via our button a number of times and the news of his announcement was debated over on our local radio station BBC Radio Berkshire. Personally I’m not so sure that completely doing away with paper books is the answer but a combined mix of online text and traditional books is the best solution for me. I wonder if the local radio station knew that he uses our button too?! It’s funny how stories end up travelling around the world and mix with local news too.
I’ll be watching the Sky Blogs and looking out for their stories and news popping up on our local radio station or in other random places! You never quite know where the next hot story will come from these days and Twitter has proven that time and time again.
We’re constantly looking out for sites that are using our button… anything from the most bizarre, obscure or most amusing use of our button on a site! Where have you seen the button in use? Where are you finding it most useful? Are you finding any sites where you wish they had the button? If so tell us! We love to hear your stories about the button!
(Random Fact:) 600 million TweetMeme buttons were served last month and we are possibly one of the largest growing re-tweet sites out there at the moment. Last month we grew 120% and we are now starting to see our button pop up all over the place.
Today we updated the TweetMeme site with some new features and some UI changes. We are hoping that this will help you find your way around the site easier and quicker as well as find additional information on re-tweets around your stories.
So first of all we added the Follow on Twitter link. This gives users the ability to follow a specific channel or the top level TweetMeme accoount. You’ll find the Follow next to our Subscribe button and under the Sign in area on the top right of the page.
Secondly we’ve made it easier to find our channels on TweetMeme. So now you can find our channels in our sub menu next to the Live button, as well as down the right hand side of our site showing the top channels on TweetMeme.
We have a variety of different channels that may be of interest to our readers including the recently added World Wide Developer Conference Channel and the Le Mans racing channel amongst others.
And finally we’ve done an update on our TweetMeme button. The basics of the button remain the same, it still does the re-tweets via the re-tweet section of the button, but now we’ve also linked the top part of the button to the story page on TweetMeme relating to that story. This means that people can see the most recent re-tweets from people and the trending graph of re-tweets for that story.
We hope you like the updates and if you find any bugs or have any suggestions relating to these new features then please let us know over on our forum.
So that you can follow the latest news and announcements coming out of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference we’ve set up a TweetMeme channel for the event. The rumours have already started and people are making their predictions on what is being announced. You’ll also find the links to the big news sites live blogging the details as they are announced.
Also if you’re on the go or prefer getting your updates via twitter, we’ve also created a twitter account just for the announcements so that you don’t miss the important news.
To co-incide with this week’s fun, cool and exciting E3 Gaming event over in Los Angeles, California we’ve launched the E3 TweetMeme channel. Here you will find the top stories coming out of the event.
The channel seems to be filling quickly with great content on the Gaming industry with lots of pictures, some really big announcements and lots of fun bits of information. It’s a must for those of you into your gaming.
I’m also putting together a list of other fun events to cover during the course of the year, so if you know of a really fun or cool event that you think we should be creating a channel for then let us know and I’ll see about creating it!
To co-incide with this weekend’s fun, cool and exciting Maker Faire over in Bay Area, California we’ve launched the Maker Faire TweetMeme channel. Here you will find the top stories coming out of the event.
I’m expecting to see some of the coolest crafts and hacks seen in a long time in this stream. It’s one of the most interesting inventor events (and if that’s not a bit of a tongue twister then I don’t know what is!) that I know of. If you know of any other really interesting ones then do let me know. I’m always interested to hear about them!
Personally I’m wondering when they’ll bring the Maker Faire over to the UK and Europe. I suspect that it would go down really well over this way. After all there’s a mad inventor in all of us. All you need to do is watch Dragon’s Den to find that out!
I’m also putting together a list of other fun events to cover during the course of the year, so if you know of a really fun or cool event that you think we should be creating a channel for then let us know and I’ll see about creating it!
