• 07
  • Oct

TweetMeme Analytics

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TweetMeme is very excited to announce the launch of TweetMeme Analytics. We have always known how effective our retweet button is at driving traction for publishers/blogs, and that providing a retweet count can be very useful, but how do you track these retweets further? How and why does a story perform well?

The TweetMeme Analytics enables report generation for any story on Twitter. Our reports help to analyze the spread of content on Twitter, and provide data on the tweets, retweets, clicks, domains, users and locations with the ability to export this information. Companies, brands and agencies are under increasing pressure to provide proof of ROIs when it comes to social media. What our Analytics provide is a way to compare your campaigns with competitor campaigns, and to help improve strategies for future campaigns.

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So if you would like to monitor the performance of the content on your blog/website, know how far your content has spread virally through Twitter and which path it took, then the TweetMeme Analytics are for you!

Sign-up is EASY and involves 2 simple steps!

Step 1. On Twitter? Sign-in to our Analytics pages.
Step 2. Get started- Generate your first report!

What’s more TweetMeme is offering the first month completely FREE. This means you will be able to generate unlimited reports across all stories on one domain for FREE!

We have  also added updates to our WordPress Plugin. This is now integrated with our analytics, which means you can take advantage of our FREE trial directly from the plugin, as well as being able to access basic analytics for any story served by the retweet button.

Wordpress Plugin

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  • 01
  • Oct

BlogWorld & New Media Expo – 15-17 October

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blogworld & New Media Expo 2009The Blog World Expo is coming and TweetMeme is getting excited! The 2009 BlogWorld will take place this year at the Las Vegas Convention Centre, and is the first and only ‘industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of new media including: Blogging, Podcasting, Social Media, Online Video, Music, TV, Radio, Gaming, Entertainment and Communities.’

Nick Halstead, the TweetMeme CEO, will be speaking and attending the event to talk all things TweetMeme. He will also be handing out exclusive TweetMeme t-shirts. If you want to get your hands on one of these head over to http://www.blogworldexpo.com/ and register with your TweetMeme promotion code – TM20; what’s more you will also get 20% off when using this code!!

If you are interested in blogging, or any other form of new media this is an event that is not worth missing! With over 50 seminars, panel discussions, key-speakers and top industry exhibitors this will be the biggest (and possibly the best) new media event of the year. And remember to head over to http://www.blogworldexpo.com with your TweetMeme promo code – TM20 – to get 20% off!!

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  • 21
  • Sep

Customising the Title

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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:

<meta name="tweetmeme-title" content="Retweet Button Explained" />

This will make any buttons that point to this page use this title for their tweet:

RT @talkTweetMeme Retweet Button Explained http://retwt.me/33K

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:

<meta name="tweetmeme-title" content="<?php wp_title(''); ?>" />

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.

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  • 11
  • Sep

TweetMeme Comment Re-Tweet Competition Leaders

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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!

  1. @erickschonfeld

    2. Comment: “working memory” is overrated anyway.

  2. @virtuosoblogger

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

  3. @mimipoosh

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

  4. @msniqueew

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

  5. @mirala90

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

  6. @ProudAtheists

    7. 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

    8. 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.

  8. @thefranchiseca

    9. Comment: We can finally announce our move!

  9. @Jnicks

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

  10. @codenamemax

    11. 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!

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  • 09
  • Sep

TweetMeme Comments Competition

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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.

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  • 08
  • Sep

Now you can REP.LY to Comments

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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

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  • 08
  • Sep

Retweet Button Explained

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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

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  • 07
  • Sep

TweetMeme a Tech Media Invest Top 100 Company! (The Guardian)

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logo-TMI100-smallEurope-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!

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  • 06
  • Sep

Bookmarklet – Easy Retweeting + Commenting

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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.

View on TweetMeme

Video Demo

I have recorded a quick video to demonstrate how easy it is to use.

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  • 28
  • Aug

TweetMeme V2

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Today we launch TweetMeme V2 – we are calling it version ‘V2’ as today’s release really is a complete revamp of the site that encompasses a total rewrite of our scoring system, filtering engine and a whole raft of user interface enhancements and tweaks. It also incorporates the new commenting system which we previewed last week.

We look forward to getting all your feedback on this new version, please leave comments on this comment thread.

Ranking Content

The new site will have more varied and better quality content, this is achieved through better scoring of stories including a new ‘kudos’ score for individual Twitter users, plus we have a new ‘reporting’ mechanism allowing our users to flag content as abusive, spam or ‘This Sucks!’

Filtering

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The filtering engine is now at Version 3 codenamed ‘Pickle’ – this is our most advanced system yet allowing the real-time filtering of 10’s of millions of stories per day based upon our own programming language ‘Pickle Code’.

This release is future proof for scalability and also allows us to plug in new data sets as they become available. Included on the right is a screenshot of our tool that allows us to drag and drop rules that produces ‘Pickle Code’ – In the coming weeks we will do a feature on the architecture of this new system.

Commenting

The new commenting system also goes live, this includes the ability to retweet individual comments (when they are good!) replying to multiple users, live updates and a really tight integration into Twitter. For a full description of the commenting features previewed“>go here.

js-kit

TweetMeme is also working with the team at JS-Kit to import the comments into the Echo Stream. TweetMeme will also be recommending and distributing Echo as the preferred solution to track the distributed conversation on blogs.

From Khris Lous CEO of JS-Kit

Echo is commited to re-assembling the distributed conversation back to blogs and other sites – working with TweetMeme is a natural step along that path

Features Overview

  • The new ‘retweeting’ commenting platform
  • A new user timeline that shows retweets and comments in a river.
  • V3 of our Filtering Engine, codenamed ‘Pickle’
  • Better RSS feeds (by Category, Channel, User or Domain)
  • Simple story analytics (to be followed next week with full analytics package)
  • A new bookmarklet that lets you find any webpage back on TweetMeme.
  • A new ‘tweets’ analyzer that only shows ‘unique’ tweets for one particular story.
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