One of the Twitter services I love the most is Tweetmeme. As Techmeme does for blogs, Tweetmeme lets you send a tweet containing a link to a news and it shows you the most retweeted (that is, the most discussed / important) stories. They also lets you integrate a Tweetmeme widget into your blog so that your readers can easily share their favorite posts.
All that said, since I think Tweetmeme offers a great service in order to get a “measure” of how discussed a news is, we decided to integrate it into Tweefind. For those who haven’t tried it yet (bad!), Tweefind is a service, developed by my company, that lets you search Twitter and display results ordered by users’ rank. For more about Tweefind, you can read this post as well as the news about an important update we released a couple of weeks ago.
How does Tweetmeme on Tweefind works? When you search for a certain keyword on Tweefind, the service displays results coming from Twitter and orders them according to the rank assigned to the users. This rank, as you can read here, is calculated by an algorithm (that works 24/7) that assigns a rank to each Twitter user. The higher this rank is, the more authority a user has. If a tweet of a high-ranked user contains a link (usually if it appears on the front page of Tweefind), the system looks for that story on Tweetmeme and gets the number of retweet it got. The three most retweeted stories are shown on the sidebar.
Together with the relevant results coming from other important sources sources, we do believe this new feature gives our users more information on how valuable a story is and helps to decide whether take a deeper look at it or not.
Thanks to these latest updates, Tweefind is becoming more and more a one-stop-shop to get all the relevant news coming from Twitter and its mashup capabilites gives users many important tools to get a clear idea on how important and “hot” a news is. Comments and suggestions are much appreciated, as usual.
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