Tag Archives: tweetmeme
Further to the TweetMeme Blogger Gadget introduced last week, we are increasing our support for Blogger users with a new template editor.
We realise that the positioning of the Gadget in the Sidebar isn’t ideal, as many would prefer it inline with their posts, so to overcome this you can use our new tool to insert the button directly into your blog template. The editor is also good news for bloggers using “Classic” templates to whom gadgets aren’t available.
To get your template code for editing, simply go to Layout then Edit HTML in your dashboard, and copy your complete template from within the textarea ([Ctrl+A] then [Ctrl+C] works well). If you are using advanced templates, please ensure the Expand Widget Templates box is ticked, though our editor will tell you if you forgot!
Once you’ve found and copied your template code you can start using the TweetMeme Blogger Template Editor.
With the addition of the editor, we’ve decided to bundle Blogger support in to a new Blogger menu page from which you can find the Gadget, the Template Editor, and a guide for manual editing.
Ever wished it was a little simpler to add our retweet button to your blog? Well in continuing our steps to making your lives easier we’re pleased to announce the TweetMeme TypePad Widget! There is now a new page in the plugins section of the site which has all the great options to customise your button and how it retweets, and even has a live preview so you can see how it will all look before it’s added to your TypePad blog.
Unfortunately TypePad’s API only allows widgets to be added to those blogs using Drag-and-Drop Design Templates so if you are using Advanced Templates you will, for the moment at least, need to continue using the manual insert method described in our help page How to Add a TweetMeme Button to your TypePad Blog.
Head over to the TweetMeme TypePad Widget page to customise your button and get it added to your blog!
By default, the widget will be installed at the bottom of your side-bar but you are free to re-organise if you wish through the Organize Content section of your Design tab.
Support for many more sites is on the way.
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.
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.
- @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!
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.
It was decided today that we don’t tell you enough about what goes on behind the scenes at TweetMeme; in other words, what we do in the office when we aren’t busy keeping you updated with the latest Twitter news and making sure the site works well!
So, here is a quick rundown of the past couple of days…
The first thing to mention is that @nicktelford celebrated his birthday this week! He was brought some pink balloons and some lovely presents which all related to his favourite celebrity — Miley Cyrus. Needless to say he was ecstatic when he opened them! To make his day even better we then played his new Miley Cyrus CD… unfortunately that was short lived due to “noise” complaints from other companies in the building. Clearly they didn’t appreciate Miley as much as we did!
In other news… when I started working for TweetMeme almost 3 weeks ago I was a girl with a slight Facebook obsession. Unfortunately, working for a company which runs a Twitter app, this was not acceptable for certain members of the TweetMeme team (*cough* @dtsn and @chris_alexander). So 6 days ago they started the process of “converting” me over to Twitter. While I hate to admit it, they were successful, and I now have two programmes on my computer which will keep me updated with Twitter, as well as my Twitter homepage permenantly being open on my browser. This caused everyone at TweetMeme to use Twitter as the “water cooler”… rather than turning around to talk to one another, we now just converse via Twitter instead… (talking is so overrated!!)
Finally, the TweetMeme Nazbatag Bunny needs a special mention. She is currently taking a holiday to the other end of the office, so has been keeping me entertained and Chris annoyed for the past week… it has been very fun making her send Twitter updates of the wrong time! Today Chris did something very foolish and created a programme which allows us to send messages that Bunny will read out (something tells me he immediately regretted it!). If you want to see what Bunny is saying to all of us, feel free to follow her via Twitter.
Having been down to the Channel 4 Education event earlier in the week which I have to say was an outstanding event. It left a lot of food for thought and got me thinking. As a result I’m looking into what we should be putting into an Education category and have just created a Moodle channel which is starting to fill out with content.
I’m hoping that this will become a useful resource for those in education or other areas that will find the content useful. If anyone can think of any other channels then do let me know…
The results sticker competition of the sticker competition are in, and for such a short competition (less than 24 hours) we did get a lot of entries and some really great ideas, so thanks to those who spent time thinking these up and to those who obviously had nothing better to do at work that day (cough @amykate) we salute you all.
Results
We voted via a process of sticks, score cards, hand raising, Google docs spreadsheet (we are geeks remember!) each team member having between 1 and 5 points to assign to their top five favorite entries.
First Prize
Number: 404
Quote: Tweet Not Found
Submitted By: Sampicli (multiple people did submit this but Sampicli was first)
This was by far the clear winner, and being a very geeky reference I am sure will be very popular. For those non-geeks 404 refers to a missing webpage. The winner will receive 50 of the stickers.
Second Prize
Number: 69
Quote: Tweeting me, Tweeting you
Submitted By: holytshirt
Second place goes to the smutty minded, and if you don’t understand the reference I suggest you go ask mummy to explain the birds and the bees. The winner will receive 25 of the stickers.
Third Prize
Number: 1
Quote: to rule them all
Submitted By: Laura.2mdc
This is actually my personal favorite and I will be getting some t-shirts done up with this design as well. The reference refers to The Lord of the Rings and the One Ring that Sauran made for himself to have dominion over everyone else (very apt I thought). The winner will receive 10 of the stickers.
Honourable Mentions
There were so many others that got voted on but did not make it into the top 3 – so I have listed them below, if you want to see the full list of submissions check out the comments on the original blog post.
- 707 tweets – iz in ur button memeing ur tweet – by asmitter
- 2001 tweets – Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave? – by onemilliommonkeys
- 99999 tweets – And all I got was this tweetin’ t-shirt! – by mjwysocki1975
- 300 tweets – Tonight we tweet in hell – by onemilliommonkeys
- 747 tweets – Jumbo Tweet – by @markabaker
- 123 tweets – Easy as ABC – by benheymink
Thanks again to everyone who took part has been a lot of fun.
Earlier in the week we had a chat with Guy Kawasaki about integration of the TweetMeme content and button into AllTop and as a result TweetMeme is now on Alltop.com http://tweetmeme.alltop.com/.
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.
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!
