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Twitter Is Revamping Retweets, Launches A Retweet API

Social Editors — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:23:50 +0000

The Washing Post/TechCrunch – In its developer Google Group, Twitter has just made the announcement that it is releasing an early preview of a brand new API: The retweeting API. And that’s not all, Twitter is in the process of completely revamping its retweet functionality.

From the looks of it, this could mean some pretty big changes on Twitter. As you can see in the mock-ups above and below, the retweet (written as “RT” in most tweets) is no longer a part of the actual tweet itself, but rather is a link below the tweet. While that certainly is a cleaner way of doing things, it will be interesting to see if this makes retweeting less or more enticing. And it could potentially help users find new people to follow (more on that below).

But as co-founder Biz Stone notes on the Twitter blog, the current method of retweeting on twitter.com is a cumbersome process of copying and pasting. They want to change that. He calls this “Phase One” of “Project Retweet,” and notes that it is going out to developers first so they can be ready for the change, and indicates that it’s not quite ready for prime-time:

We are still sketching out exactly how this feature and its API counterpart works. Sharing our thoughts before launching means developers will have the opportunity to prepare their applications. In a few weeks or so we’ll launch the feature on our web site and because app developers had a chance to prepare, it should become available across most of the Twitter ecosystem about the same time. This way, we can all enjoy retweeting?however we choose to access Twitter.

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Benefits of Social Bookmarking

Social Editors — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:01:11 +0000

Team Position2 — The Benefits of Social Book Marketing are Hugh — I am sure you know what bookmarks are – those strips of leather or crafted card used to mark a place in a book. Similarly, on the internet, users can use bookmarks to save their favorite pages to visit in future.

Personally, I have an enormous amount of important pictures, videos and documents and I save all of them in social bookmarking sites. Now, you might wonder what social bookmarking is. Wikipedia defines it as, “A method for internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of webpages on the internet with the help of metadata.”

In other words, it is a method used to save and store online information or webpages for future reference. It also helps you share links with your contacts. There are many social bookmarking sites like digg, delicious, stumbleupon, etc. you can use for this purpose.

Here are some benefits of social bookmarking you should consider…

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ReTweetability Index Ranks Twitter Users

the Editors — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:08:33 +0000

The ReTweetability Index measures and ranks Twitter users based on the infectious power of their tweets. This number accounts for number of followers and Tweets overall, so it is a true indicator of infectiousness.

There is some math involved, but in simple terms, users with a high ReTweetability Index have a greater percentage of their content spread by a greater percentage of their followers, implying that when they do tweet, it’s worth reading.

Some might say their content is just that good. Whatever the reason, these users have proven to be highly ReTweetable, and this metric ranks them in a way that accounts for disparities among follower counts and Tweet totals.

And, it does take quite a while to measure everyone’s ReTweetability score, so the index has a delay. The site is located at http://www.retweetability.com/ .

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