You might think that those green “retweet” buttons you see across the web (including on this site) are controlled by Twitter, but they’re actually the key component to TweetMeme, the tweeted link aggregator. And now that key component is under attack by the new service ReTweet.com.
ReTweet.com, which launched this week looking shockingly similar to TweetMeme, now has a contest that will reward $10,000 to a blogger that installs their retweet button on their site. While they don’t explicitly call out TweetMeme’s button, they do have this very blurb featured prominently on the site: “Add the Real Retweet Button to Your Website!”, which of course implies that the TweetMeme retweet button is not the real one.
All a blogger has to do to win the cash is install the button and fill out a short form to let ReTweet.com know where it is installed. Oh, and ReTweet.com has to surpass 1 million visitors in the next 30 days. So far, after about a day, they’re at just over 30,000 visitors.
And just incase the $10,000 doesn’t entice you to install their button, ReTweet.com has also commissioned the following extremely annoying video apparently made by a fitness blogger. Actually, this video may be genius. I could see either “retweet your tweets on the web” or “in THIS economy?” turning into their own memes. And I can certainly see this video showing up on TweetMeme.
[thanks Sean]
Wow that guy is annoying…
lol complete rip off… i hope tweetmeme crushes them. will be fun to watch either way.
I think its possible because these wars can get them more promotions and users.
in THIS economy?
Shit, I’m sold. This thing sounds better than the ShamWow.
BTW, is that dude French Canadian or is his face interfering with his pronunciation?
LMAO!!!
They should have used that $10,000 and hired the ScamWow guy to do the video!
On another note, I have been using the word “Cheers” for a long time as a signature. Think I may stop using it after this video.
“Ch–rs”
JP
It would be nice if you could install these services to your blogger or WP blogs without knowing a lot of html… and be able to do it once… I use posterous as my blog updater and it is a pain to go into blogger and then add one of these buttons.. and what ever happened to having a hot girl do the vids.. not some guy..
cant buy tits in THIS economy
Here’s the plugin to add Tweetmeme to WP http://bit.ly/RQYUs and this is as easy as it gets for Blogger: http://bit.ly/17LSG3
See lots of people use blogger who wouldn’t know how to do that.. it is easy if you know html…. does ever amuse you that you can add google analytics to your posterous blog without needing to know any html but you can’t to your blogger blog… for all googles good, blogger really needs a tune up..
I was brain washed… OMG, all that i believe in my life turns to be a lie… this video open my eyes to the ignarance…
THANKS ReTweet.com
Techcrunch, meanwhile, remains completely impartial between the two non-entities
The big question though, will TechCrunch bow to the might that is ReTweet.com? Surely, in THIS economy you could use an extra $10k.
“Yo dawg I herd you like to tweet”, but anyways 10k? Yeah I’ll add it to my squeeze page.
apparently conflicts are more interesting than everything else, in any economy. But it’s actually Twitter wisdom that allows this open environment.
what a complete moron!
That video is kind of awesome.
WORD!!
Hahaa! That’s my boy Lorenz… energy, check.
“In THIS economy, I’d put it in the bank.” – I like the way he thinks.
So (without checking the exchange rates) nearly twice as much funding to launch a service with code stolen from tweetmeme and a video that makes me want to remove my own eyes with a fork. Hmmm seems like retweet is onto a winner with this one…
ShamWow anyone?
that is the first thing i thought of too.
it was more of the head on headache commercial… but yeah, just all around annoying
Isn’t that a popular blog?
Alexa Trend/Rank: #2,690,444: Up 1,227 ranks over the last three months.
Lmao.
Also you might want to mention how this “competition” is misleading. In the video and explanation of the competition they say “1 Million page loads”, however if you’re following the counter it only tracks UNIQUE visitors, so if I load the page 100 times – ergo 100 page loads – it only counts as 1 with their counter. So they’re offering based on page loads when really they’re tracking unique visitors.
What a heap of poop. Good to mesiablabs lying as always
Never seen such a nice promotion video, repeating every information a couple of times. Maybe they are thinking we are idiots…
damn…
Looking forward to seeing the video mashups of this ;!
Only a matter of time before twitter offers their own. They’d be stupid not to.
It’s going to be such a happy day when all the ‘retweet’ buttons, and twatter talk and overhyped buzz just quietly fades into the background where it belongs.
The MY site, jiz.zr which combines, porn, Nigerian 419 scams, nanoblogging and pork products into one revolutionary service, will be ready to dominate the world.
Haha.. hahaaaahhahaha..ahahaha..HAHAHAHAHAA>>HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!
*cough*
What a tool… I will not be using retweet on my site based on that video alone.
When they launched I went to the site and tried to keep an open mind, having used tweetmeme in the past. But the site really annoyed me.
The “real retweet button” phrasing really got my goat. It makes absolutely no sense unless you know about tweetmeme, and then it just seems immature.
If these clowns really got $1.4 million VC funding IN THIS ECONOMY then I’m in the wrong business.
Here’s their Art Director’s tour of the clubhouse:
http://www.yout...h?v=WK4HixYZXHQ
Funded himself through the profits of hummingbird and his other shitty products, I think. It definitely wasn’t VC.
I’ve used their products and they are all VERY useful! If they were shi**y then they wouldnt make money off of them wouldnt you think?
No, lots of people make money off sh**y products.
Couldn’t agree more.
We’ve been using tweetmeme on http://www.worstpizza.com and http://www.rev2.org for a while now and have had no issues, so not sure I would change!
You can also ReWoof at Woofer. A spoof on Twitter with a 1400 charcter MINIMUM.
Retweet for the win!! $10,000 to add a button that helps me get more traffic! Um if course I’ll be adding it!
Crazy awesome video hahahahah
This guys really needs some double pop’d collars, but I understand that’s not easy in THIS economy.
After looking at your picture, you need a haircut!! I guess we are all a bit in need of something.
So are you, apparently.
The real question is will TechCrunch be installing the ReTweet button?
I’m thinking, no.
Not in THIS economy at least.
what is he talking about, “in this economy.” The recession is OVER.
Are you sure they will honor their claim? In this economy? OK, that’s not funny anymore, but I really doubt it.