Want to see phenomenal website growth? Then you should check out Tweetmeme.com. Tweetmeme.com is a twitter link site that shows you all the popular links ranked by a couple of different categories. You can choose to order them by most tweets, momentum of Tweets, title of the post or article, underlying domain and hash tags within the Tweets. Also, you can sort them by Comedy, Gaming, Lifestyle, Science Sports, Technology, World & Business and Entertainment. Or simply by News, Images or Videos. The site is updated with about 200.000 links every day. You can find out what’s new on Tweetmeme.com by following the tweetmeme account on Twitter or sub-accounts for each cannel such as tm_technology or tm_comedy
Now, getting back to Tweetmeme’s growth, because that’s the reason you’re here. According to Compete, Tweetmeme started from a somewhat modest 26.000 unique visitors a month in February 2009 and went to a quite impressive 385.000 unique visitors in March 2009. I don’t know what you think but to me that’s a big progress. Nick Halstead , the CEO of UK-based Fav.or.it, which is the company behind Tweetmeme, told Techcrunch.com that “he is tracking closer to 200,000 uniques a month based on yesterday’s visitors, but that he is adding 50 percent a week.”
Apparently Tweetmeme seems to be letting behind other Twitter link sites like Twitturly and Twit Links. Tweetmeme must really know the ”game it’s playing.”
Recently, Tweetmeme added OAuth, which lets you sign in with your Twitter account and retweet headlines without leaving the page. Furthermore, a toolbar has been launched which looks awfully similar to the Digg.com toolbar. Instead of seeing how many times the story has been Dugg, you see how many times the story has been Tweeted. Instead of seeing the Random button, you see the Shuffle button. It seems that at least the Tweetmeme toolbar can be closed easier.
This toolbar is another way of keeping people focused and using Tweetmeme, which helps the site grow. A lot of sites are making their own toolbars, which brings up a half-serious question “Will there be any space for the actual website?”
A really nice thing about Tweetmeme is the fact that they are adding more and more features. Some weeks ago Tweetmeme added a “live” tab which shows the most Tweeted link stream onto the page.
This thing has positives and negatives. Although you can set it to show stories that have been tweeted at least 5,10 or 20 times you can have a bit of a hassle until you set the setting so that you can read them comfortably without them moving too fast.
In fact, Tweetmeme may have the power to battle with well-known internet news aggregators such as Techmeme, which is regarded as one of the best news gatherers on the World Wide Web. Some say that Gabe Rivera (Techmeme’s founder and one of the three employees alongside Omer Horvitz and Megan McCarthy) should start thinking worrying…
There are a lot of factors that can change the final outcome of this imaginary battle but in the end, I think we might have other problems we should stress ourselves with, besides this.
Cheers!
