Posts Tagged ‘re-tweet’

TweetMeme Pro

In response to feedback from some of our larger publishers, we are proud to announce the launch of TweetMeme Pro.

TweetMeme continually looks to improve its service and develop new ways for our publishers to integrate seamlessly. The company has grown substantially over the past year and now serves in the region of 700M buttons per day on around 250,000 sites.

We understand that it is important to provide the option of delivering a branded experience for its users through improved delivery and the ability to customise the button.

The TweetMeme Pro Button provides support for:

  • Up to 10 UTM tracking codes within the button
  • Customisation on the design of the button
  • Customisation on the design of the pop-up box
  • Dedicated servers to ensure high reliability and performance
  • The best user + publisher Retweet experience*
  • 100% accurate Retweet counts*
  • URL Shortener Support (including BIT.LY Pro)*
  • Web, RSS, Email and Mobile support*
  • Support for HashTags + Whitespace*
  • International language support*

The TweetMeme Pro solution means you will be able to track the performance of tweets made through the button, and deliver a fully branded experience to your users.

Existing sites already using the TweetMeme Pro solution include:

      

As of today we are already serving 80 million Pro buttons daily using a combination of co-location and dedicated servers. TweetMeme’s hosting partner, DediPower, not only supports the 700 million standard retweet buttons that we serve each day, but also provides the high capacity, on-demand infrastructure required to cope with our growing Pro and standard button-base.

To find out how you can use TweetMeme Pro please take a look at our website or sign-up.

* – Features also included in the standard TweetMeme Retweet Button.

TweetMeme Comment Re-Tweet Competition Leaders

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!

TweetMeme Removes Whitelist Restriction

Prior to today we had a restriction on the TweetMeme Button that all tweets were re-tweeted as RT @tweetmeme with the exception of those on the whitelist where they could do RT @their_twitter_account which allowed the re-tweet to be from a specific twitter account/ user.  We got lots of feedback from our users… especially those who weren’t on the whitelist via our Forums and listened to their shouts!  I bet they thought we were ignoring them! (but no, we were working away to ensure that the updates worked perfectly.)

So now everyone is whitelisted and you can change it to RT @[your twitter name]. We have updated the instructions on the Button page and we have also updated the WordPress Plugin so that you change the twitter account easily. Once you have the plugin installed, go to Settings, TweetMeme and then set the Source to your twitter name. (e.g. talktweetmeme in my case) Don’t include the @ otherwise it’ll be @@talktweetmeme which wouldn’t really work.

We hope you like the update and the power it gives you as a user to see who is re-tweeting your stories and articles.  It should also mean that you could create conversation around the stories online if you add those re-tweeting your stories as friends on twitter.  I’m sure people will come up with all sorts of useful ways of using this new and very much requested feature!

Please do give us feedback and new feature requests on our Forum.  We do read every request and we try to do those that are of value to many people as soon as we can!

Shorten It: Most popular URL shorteners (re-visited)

We’ve been continuing to keep an eye on the different URL shortener trends and thought that we would show you the effect of Twitter moving it’s default shortening service from TinyURL to Bitly.  Here at Tweetmeme, we’re constantly downloading and storing your tweets with links in, so we’re in a unique position of being able to tell you exactly how many of you are using which URL-shortening service, and how they’re competing. We’ve taken todays data from Tweetmeme , and compiled the top 5 URL shorteners to give you the graph below.

The Stats:
tinyurl.com:    44.8455%
bit.ly:    43.3557%
is.gd:    5.479%
tr.im:    3.8395%
ow.ly:    2.4803%

most_popular_url_shorteners_today_6th_may_09

We then went through our entire database of URL’s that we’ve seen and created the comparison graph of the overall stats for URL shorteners.  We’ll leave you to make your own conclusions about how influential Twitters choices are in terms of the services that they use and the impact that they have on companies.

most_popular_url_shorteners_overall

And the stats behind this one:

tinyurl.com:    67.741%
bit.ly:    20.7948%
is.gd:    4.9303%
ff.im:    3.8137%
tr.im:    2.7202%

And you too can see the latest stats from TweetMeme at the bottom of our site.  The stats update on the hour every hour.  It should be of interest to anyone wanting to use the most common url shorteners then this is a good place to find out which one really is the most commonly used one.

How To Use the TweetMeme Bar

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!

bar

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.

Our Top Users!

Recently we have had a great uptake with our official TweetMeme Button being used on some widely read websites.  As a result we’ve seen our traffic and number of re-tweets increase. So we thought that we would share with you who the top re-tweeters are on our site this month.

toptweetmeme-users

The list consists of:

A big thank you to our top re-tweeters and those using our re-tweet button.  If you have a high volume blog site on WordPress and are using our plugin then do let us know.  We like to say thank you to our top re-tweeters!