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Tweetmeme Retweets Become Elite Next Week

Posted from Mashable! 260 days ago
technology, gadgets, social-network, internet : Social-Networking

Retweeting, as we’ve mentioned before (see HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter), is an increasingly popular way to share content on the web. Twitter is such a powerful tool for sharing media, in fact, that the former market leaders are racing to keep up. News sharing site Digg recently added short URLs and attempted to append a toolbar to those short URL clicks (Diggbar was later scaled back), while serendipitous sharing site StumbleUpon also got into the short URL game. Both are under attack by new services like Tweetmeme, which provides blog buttons to help users retweet stories and provid... (original story)