TweetMeme Going for Tweet Ranking Business

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Aug
8

Fav.or.it announced today that they will focus their resources on TweetMeme, a tweet ranking service based on the number of retweets. By doing so, they join repeets.com, dailyrt.com and thetweetwatch.com.

Ranking tweets based on the times they have been tweeted is an interesting concept and complementary to the real-time nature of Twitter.com. Offering such services is aligned with the idea that of social media is a form of ant colony: trends can be shown by their reception from the community and in a more natural way than the immediacy-priority nature of Twitter.com. Offering the feature of searching time spans such as showing trends for today, this month, etc. is a great way of customizing the definition of “right now”.

One note should be added here: thetweetwatch.com distinguishes itself from other services named above in that it does not limit itself to tweets with HTTP links. Since The Tweet Watch is based on the concept of knowledge sharing, it takes advantage of Twitter.com as a platform for communicating and reacting to ideas within the Twitter community.