The system is very simple and the TweetMeme Retweet Button can be integrated into any standard IAB advertisement size. Advertisers have the choice between our compact button, or our standard button…..and of course you can use our TweetMeme Analytics to easily monitor the success of your campaign. The Adtweets can be served on any website, as well as on TweetMeme.com. With the support of Federated Media there is a large pool of publishers able to give advertisers a targeted audience of  social media friendly readers, who are likely to retweet engaging adverts to their friends and Followers.

TweetMeme is also re-launching Featured Tweets….Even more powerful, to help promote particular stories, and encourage the sharing of important content to other Twitter users.  The potential value of the featured tweets was apparent in the first version, but there were some essential elements missing. After taking on board invaluable feedback from both users and customers, the service was suspended. It was back to the drawing board, and what has emerged is a new Featured Tweet system that sponsors can use to bring relevent news and stories quickly to the attention of the TweetMeme Community, who then have the opportunity to retweet the story to their Twitter Followers and so on.

The aim of this system is to give potentially viral stories a little helping hand. The improvements include better targeting of your Featured Tweet, analytics to track your story, a simple, easy to use interface, and a reduced number of sponsored stories per page.  The result? An immediate increase in exposure, an encouragement in the spread of content, increased traffic and more Twitter Followers – for sponsors….And a happier user base, with only 1 sponsored story per page.

Want to find out more, have any questions, or want to be one of the first to take advantage of this, please contact sales@tweetmeme.com!

Here’s a few pics of the different designs.  The choice of descriptions actually came out of a sticker design competition we ran a while back, the details of our imaginative Twitter fans can be found here! We have male & female in a range of sizes so no one feels left out!

By pure chance today the top story over on TweetMeme has been this one about cool Geek T-shirts!  Maybe our ones will get in there when we give out more of them!  If you are wanting exposure at events and want to sponsor your logo on the next batch of our tshirts then do get in touch with us as we are looking into getting another batch printed soon.  This batch have our partners Dedipower and Sun StartUp Essentials on them!

1. @erickschonfeld

Comment: “working memory” is overrated anyway.

2. @virtuosoblogger

Comment:  These ipods will include cameras that is great!. I think that was much needed

3. @mimipoosh

Comment: spending time with psychologists will permanently impair human intelligence.

4. @msniqueew

Comment: On Joe Wilson: ‘You’ve Embarrassed The Nation’

5. @mirala90

Comment: 09/09/09 is the last set of repeating, single-digit dates that we’ll not see for almost a century

6. @ProudAtheists

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.

7. @herdboy

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.

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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.

8. @thefranchiseca

Comment: We can finally announce our move!

9. @Jnicks

Comment: DOWNLOAD THIS SONG IF YOU LIKE AND GIVE IT TO YOUR FAV DJ

10. @codenamemax

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.

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!

As you may have already noticed Alltop is a great new way to read all our different feeds and in terms of our content it takes the top stories and aggregates them to give you a quick and simple view of what we have on our site.  Feel free to take a peak and let us and Guy know what you think.

Our thanks on this one to @guykawasaki and his team for getting it all sorted out it looks great and we look forward to seeing what happens next with it.

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.

Where to get the hottest stories on Twitter? Ask Nick Halstead of TweetMeme

If you liked this video and want to put other questions to Nick then leave them in the comments area and we’ll see what we can do about putting the questions to him and getting the questions and answers up here too!

We launch today with the ability to search 15+ million links which we have deep searched for content, this not only includes the text from web pages and blog posts but also videos and images.

Although the ability to keep our index totally real-time is great we also believe that the delivery of relevance is still just as important, our default search results are based upon a clever combination of newness, retweets and some other weighting factors. This means results tend to be recent and relevant but at the same time the most popular. We do also offer search by ‘Age’. Lastly you can sort the results purely by ‘retweets’ to give you the most relevant results based upon its popularity on Twitter.

Here is a quick bullet point of the key features of our search,

• Real-time search – our indexer picks up stories as they come out of Twitter
  • Boolean operators (& | – ! and grouping) – explained below
  • Sort by Best Match
  • Sort by Age
  • Sort by Retweet Count
• Filtering
  • Filter by Category
  • Filter by Media (News, Images, Videos)
  • Filter by Age (recent links first)
  • Filter by Tweets (e.g. 100+ retweets)
  • Filter by Channel (e.g. apple, start-ups)
• RSS – you can subscribe to any of the search results
• Retweet – you can retweet the links you find without leaving the site (if you are logged in via OAuth)

Some guidelines on how to use our search -> http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/05/11/search-guidelines/

Lastly we will soon expose the engine via our API so that other developers can leverage the results.

See what the press have said already:

• TechCrunch: Tweetmeme Launches The Second Real-Time Tweet Link Search — This Hour
• VentureBeat: TweetMeme’s latest Twitter search tools take on Scoopler, OneRiot
• Mashable: Tweetmeme Shows Off the Future of Twitter Search
• Louis Gray: http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/05/tweetmeme-launches-real-time-search.html
• CNN:  http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/12/future.search.engine/index.html?iref=t2test_techtues

Or just search on TweetMeme

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