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12 Aug 2010 12:59

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Tech: OK, we take it back. TweetMeme and Twitter are still buddies

  • In case you haven’t seen, that Tweet Button has launched. And rather than being a half-baked thang, it’s totally full-baked, with lots of early support out of the gate. And rather than taking the scorned lover role like it seemed at first, TweetMeme is an equal partner here. “Firstly we will be assisting Twitter with the technical challenges involved with the button,” wrote TweetMeme CEO Nick Halstead, “and secondly we will be working even more closely in the future on delivering real-time curation of the Twitter Firehose.” Oh, yeah, check this out. Those buttons were just the start. DataSift is the future. source
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11 Aug 2010 10:48

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Tech: Twitter’s official “Tweet Button” should piss off Tweetmeme

  • First off, this is really unfair. Twitter has, on multiple occasions, taken things that its developer base have nurtured and created and made their own versions. Tweetmeme, in some ways, may have set itself up for a situation like this – the design of the button was such that it could slow down big sites (we recently switched to the quicker Topsy for this reason), and the color scheme (which couldn’t be changed) was too loud for a piece of furniture. But really? Why didn’t Twitter just buy them out rather than compete directly with them? This is how not to keep your platform’s developers very happy. One key point to make here: If Twitter is uninterested in the analytics end, Tweetmeme may still have a market even despite this. source
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09 Aug 2009 22:11

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Tech: tr.im gets whiny, shuts down their URL shortener, blames Twitter

  • What is the point? With bit.ly the Twitter default, and with us having no inside connection to Twitter, tr.im will lose over the the long-run no matter how good it may or may not be at this moment, or in the future.
  • A message posted on the tr.im blog • Saying that despite the site’s popularity, they don’t feel like the service will succeed and they’re going to shut it down. The post attacks other targets besides Twitter and bit.ly – including TweetMeme. They feel that they can’t sell the statistical information because everyone else has it. Nobody wanted to buy the service. And it just wasn’t worth it anymore. Twitter is now gonna be a graveyard of useless shortened links. Great. • source
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