Tweetmeme v2
You may have noticed that we haven’t had retweet buttons on today’s posts here at The Next Web. Why? They haven’t been working. Tweetmeme, the company behind our retweet buttons, took the service down for maintenance this morning with no warning and it’s still down now.
The first upgrade we looked at is the analytics feature. For each retweeted post you get graphs for tweets in the past hour, tweets in the past day, a pie chart showing where tweets came from and analysis of recent retweets.
In addition, there’s a new comments tab allowing comments to be posted directly to Tweetmeme’s site. This can be posted to Twitter (via OAuth) with a link back to the discussion on Tweetmeme. Comments are displayed in pseudo-realtime like Facebook – a notification inviting you to refresh the page to see them. As you can see, Nick Halstead, CEO of Tweetmeme, replied to my comment. These replies can optionally be sent as Twitter replies too.
This is obviously an attempt to get more conversation happening directly on Tweetmeme. How likely this will be to happen, I’m not sure – Tweetmeme has always been about tracking Twitter links, not content discussion. Still, it’s an interesting move and one that sets it apart from Retweet.com.
The new site will have more varied and better quality content, this is achieved through better scoring of stories including a new ‘kudos’ score for individual Twitter users, plus we have a new ‘reporting’ mechanism allowing our users to flag content as abusive, spam or ‘This Sucks!’
The filtering engine is now at Version 3 codenamed ‘Pickle’ – this is our most advanced system yet allowing the real-time filtering of 10’s of millions of stories per day based upon our own programming language ‘Pickle Code’. This release is future proof for scalability and also allows us to plug in new data sets as they become available. Included on the right is a screenshot of our tool that allows us to drag and drop rules that produces ‘Pickle Code’ – In the coming weeks we will do a feature on the architecture of this new system. [The Next Web]
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