TweetMeme, the quickly-growing site that lists the most popular links on Twitter, is launching an overhauled version today that the startup is calling TweetMeme V2. The company says that today’s release includes “a total rewrite” of its scoring system, which will likely affect how quickly and what type of stories appear on the site.
Given that the site isn’t live yet we can’t test the new engine, but TweetMeme says that the new ranking engine will provide “more varied and better quality content”, which will be helped in part by a new kudos scoring system that can change the weight of individual Twitter users. The site is also introducing an improved filtering engine, a new comment system (you’ll now be able to take a comment on the site and retweet it), and a flagging system that lets users bury bad entries. A more robust analytics package will also be appearing next week.
Another interesting note: TweetMeme is teaming with JS-Kit to add support for its real-time commenting engine Echo , which will now be able to import TweetMeme contents into blogs. TweetMeme will also begin promoting Echo, presumably in the hopes of having its reach widened as its comments appear in more blogs.
Tweetmeme often appears down for me
Thats not to say I don’t like it – It just seems unreliable. Its like Twitter all over again.
Really? I’ve never seen it down.
Love TweetMeme. Can’t live without its button. Haha.
Tweetmeme is good … but I’m liking Tweble.com better. A lot more interesting content there.
Cool ! Love Tweet Meme
I like it as well, I have it on all my blogs and my forum
I’ve tried other apps, and tweetmeme is the best IMO
Super.
But Tweetmeme will not crush ReTweet.com with a universal domain in addition to “tweetmeme’.
Only geeks dig that.
They should have gone after ReTweet.Me
Personally, I disagree. A good domain is definitely important at launch, but once you have brand awarness the domain is moot. Take google for example, if they’d been “search.com” in the start they’d have had a much easier time launching and branding, but now where they are “google.com” is better than “search.com”. Tweetmeme launched a great product and have the exposure – they’re on techcrunch! – so now their domain is totally irrelevant.
They’re past the hard part, retweet.com won’t go anywhere.
Hi submit too early…
Another point regarding the domain; the majority of their traffic is via twitter and blogs, they don’t care about the domain. This isn’t real life where we’ve got to recall the domain and pronounce it right for the person to understand it.
Should have been “…will not crush WITHOUT…”
Really a Great idea used in developing tweetmeme and is rapidly reaching to most of the twitter users.. Many users got addicted to it!!
The success of a website that is meant for search and aggregations relies mainly on Ranking. The best ranking mechanism would provide the best compromised results. The more refinement in tweets the more value it gains. Expecting it’s release to get more relevant tweets.
great, the techcrunch article brought them down w/ all the site traffic. thanks TC!
You mean they’re finally trying to catch up with the quality of twittersphere.com?
I can’t see how any blog wouldn’t be using the Tweetmeme button.
What about search on TweetMeme? Or search on digg? It’s useless! But anyway, some of these guys should probably start focusing on other aspects not just on “improving” comments. Just an opinion – not starting anything.
Twitter will blow this thing away by the end of the year with changes to its platform. #nobusinesshere
Thanks for the info. i think i might check this out.
Does Tweetmeme really have 12M monthly uniques (based on Crunchbase / Compete.com)? That growth seems rather amazing…