Tag Archives: re-tweet
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!
- @erickschonfeld
Comment: “working memory” is overrated anyway.
- @virtuosoblogger
Comment: These ipods will include cameras that is great!. I think that was much needed
- @mimipoosh
Comment: spending time with psychologists will permanently impair human intelligence.
- @msniqueew
Comment: On Joe Wilson: ‘You’ve Embarrassed The Nation’
- @mirala90
Comment: 09/09/09 is the last set of repeating, single-digit dates that we’ll not see for almost a century
- @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.
- @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.
- @thefranchiseca
Comment: We can finally announce our move!
- @Jnicks
Comment: DOWNLOAD THIS SONG IF YOU LIKE AND GIVE IT TO YOUR FAV DJ
- @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!
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!
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%
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
