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Tweetmeme Founder Announces Datasift, A Developer Tool For Advancing Twitter Search

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:08:07 +0000

Tweetmeme has been on a roll lately. Not only have they partnered with Twitter this month on a new Twitter retweet button, but they have also announced a new search engine product called Datasift.

Datasift is essentially a programming language that can help users with complex searches. An example that TheNextWeb gave was the ability to find “people in New York with over 200 followers who have mentioned Barack Obama in a positive way with no swearing in the past day.”

Datasift is not intended for common Twitter users. Instead it is for developers of Twitter-centric software to build advanced search tools. This would be beneficial to Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, Seesmic, etc.

Twitter has provided a lot of support to Tweetmeme on this new product. Datasift will make money by offering free streams with built-in ads and paid streams where developers for content volume.

[TheNextWeb]

Tweetmeme Delivering 500 Million Retweet Buttons Per Day

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:06:29 +0000

Tweetmeme must require some strong server power because the company is now delivering 500 million retweet buttons per day. The Tweetmeme button is installed on about 200,000 different websites including Pulse2.com. The company is now rolling out the retweet button in different languages now too.

The retweet button is now supported in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Tweetmeme will also automatically translate tweets using Google Translate. [ReadWriteWeb]

10 Very Useful Twitter Search Tools

Amit Chowdhry — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:48:56 +0000

1. Areaface

Areaface allows you to search for tweets based on keywords and phrases. The tweets are mapped out on a Google Map.

2. BackTweets

Backtweets is a Twitter search application where you can search for specific URL and it will be able to find the results even if the URL has been shortened. This is something the original Twitter search engine cannot do.

3. Local Follow

Local Follow is a Twitter search engine that allows you to search within 4 main fields. The 4 main fields include Bio, Location, Name, and Tweets.

4. Monitter

Monitter is a Twitter search engine with multiple columns. You can do multiple searches at once. It displays keyword and phrase searches in real-time.

5. Schmap Picks

Schmap Picks can be used for searching for reviews about restaurants and other establishments. Currently very few cities are being supported.

6. Searchtastic

Searchtastic is a Twitter search tool that lets you search for keyword specific tweets that are older than what is shown by Twitter’s own search engine.

7. TweepSearch

TweepSearch is a tool that can be used for searching people on Twitter. If you enter a keyword, it scans the profile of Twitter users that have that keyword in their bio.

8. Tweetmeme

Tweetmeme is a way to track who is retreating blog posts and news articles. Tweetmeme has a search engine that allows you to search for the most popular tweets across the web.

9. Twellow

Twellow is a Twitter search engine that organizes information in a Yellow Pages style. You can search for keywords and it will find the results in people’s biographies. You can also filter by industries.

10. TwitJobSearch

TwitJobSearch is a Twitter search engine that allows you to filter tweets by a profession that you are looking for. For example, if you search for “software engineer” on TwitJobSearch, you can find a job related to that profession right away.

Retweet Sold On Flippa For $250,000

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:39:28 +0000

Retweet.com has been sold on Flippa for $250,000. Retweet.com received about 45 bids total before someone clicked “buy it now.” Retweet.com aggregates popular links on Twitter. The service is very similar to Tweetmeme. Currently Retweet.com does not have any revenue sources. [Mashable]

Seesmic Adds Threaded Twitter Conversations, Geotagging, and Tweetmeme Support

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:49:57 +0000

Today Seesmic Web has improved their web-based Twitter client. Seesmic Web has added a contact manager, threads Twitter conversations, and allows you to drag and drop followers into lists. There is also Tweetmeme stats built into Seesmic’s updated web-based client. Unlike Twitter.com itself, Seesmic Web also lets you upload photos to a host or take a picture from your webcam to share on Twitter. [CNET]

ReTweet Launches And Looks The Same As TweetMeme

Amit Chowdhry — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:47:08 +0000

ReTweet.com is a service based on retweets, the repeating of status messages on Twitter of people that you follow. ReTweet has about $1.4 million in funding no funding (e-mail from ReTweet) and their biggest competitor Tweetmeme has about €650,000 ($926,000) in funding.

Both companies are really picking up steam in the ReTweeting business and TweetMeme does not like it. TweetMeme has threatened Mesiab Labs, the company behind ReTweet.com for copying their website design and copying their retweet button code.

The only problem with these two companies is that Twitter themselves are interested in getting into retweets too. If Twitter starts counting how many times status updates have been repeated and even creates a widget that showcases the count, these two companies will be out of luck.

Update: ReTweet is valuated at about $4 million by Leapfish.

Tweetmeme Planning To Rank Stories By Retweets

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:29:02 +0000

Tweetmeme is becoming a useful way to share content on the web. Tweetmeme is closing down their original news filtering service in order to focus mroe on ranking stories by retweets. The Tweetmeme homepage displays stories based on the most recent, top in 24 hours, and top in the last 7 days.

As part of the shut-down of the news filtering service on Tweetmeme, Fav.or.it will also be shutting down. Fav.or.it is by the same developers as Tweetmeme. “TweetMeme became our focus for several reasons, firstly the trend towards status messages (micro-blogging) meant that access to real-time news was becoming a reality and that our aggregation + filtering technologies could be very quickly leveraged to take advantage of it,” stated Fav.or.it CEO Nick Halstead.

The Fav.or.it website will become the company website. Fav.or.it also runs a service called TweetTabs. TweetTabs is a website that opens up multiple tabs when searching.

[via Mashable]