TweetMeme Going for Tweet Ranking Business
Posted by Ahmad Barirani in 
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 upruf.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: upruf.com distinguishes itself from other services named above in that it does not pull but push data on Twitter.com. Since Upruf is based on the concept of knowledge sharing, it needs more space that the 140 characters allowed per tweet. Twitter.com platform is used as a mean of communicating ideas to followers and the whole Twitter community.
