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The lovely & talented Sarah Vela interviews Nick Halstead of  TweetMeme.  You know the little “Retweet button” on blogs and sites EVERYWHERE on the interwebs? Yeah, now there are over 80 million of these buttons out there. What is TweetMeme doing behind the scenes?  You might want to know this stuff guys! Watch & Learn something! get some ideas, and build something that kicks ass.

About

TweetMeme ButtonTweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. TweetMeme categorises these links into Categories, Subcategories and Channels, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what you’re interested in.

We make it easy for you to subscribe to each category and the most popular through our RSS feeds and Twitter accounts. You can find out more about these through our help pages.

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Using the TweetMeme Button you can discover new content and tweet about it. The button provides a fully integrated URL shortener and the title of the story or page. Each link which is posted on Twitter adds one to the tweet count for that story. Once the story has reached a critical mass of tweets, it makes it into the top 10 on the front page and gets tweeted by our Twitter account.

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Each story on TweetMeme has a TweetMeme Button which integrates both the current number of tweets that story has, and allows you to easily retweet the link.

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You can leave comments on every story featured on TweetMeme, with the option of retweeting the best comments out to Twitter.

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Use the TweetMeme Search to search across stories posted on Twitter, and discover and share new content.

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Install the TweetMeme Button quickly and easily on your website or blog, and let your users quickly and easily retweet your stories straight from your website

icon Who built TweetMeme?

TweetMeme was built by a small web company called fav.or.it who are passionate about Twitter, social media and a whole lot more. You can read about what the team are up to on their Blog, and choose what music they listen to via Spotify.