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A Techmeme for Twitter

TechCrunch reviews Tweetmeme, a fantastic new site that acts as a Techmeme for Twitter:

It had to happen sooner or later. We?ve had Technorati. We?ve had TechMeme. Now we have Tweetmeme, which will track what?s hot on micro-blogging platform Twitter. The business of tracking the online conversation just a got shot in the arm a big hit with the tech equivalent of crack cocaine.
Built by the makers Fav.or.it, a yet-to-launch blog commenting system, and based on an idea by Marjolein Hoekstra, Tweetmeme looks for new content and tracks who else is talking about it. It ranks the content based upon who and how much a particular item is being discussed. As anyone knows, the number of URLs which spread virally through Twitter each day must run into the millions, so tracking where that viral trail starts and gains momentum is going to be fascinating. It also categorizes the content into blogs / videos / images and audio.

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The knockout punch is that Tweetmeme will Twitter the original person who first mentioned the item if it makes it onto Tweetmeme. This is going to be fun?

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Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on January 29, 2008 (boomark / email).