Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't find an option to disable using Twitter's own shortening service?<p>As an extreme example, I find <a href="http://t.co/gpRQitG" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/gpRQitG</a> less informative than <a href="http://youtu.be/oHg5SJYRHA0" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/oHg5SJYRHA0</a>. If your site is still only at 3 characters ID, unlike Youtube, having a custom shortened domain from which users can tell what it is, generally, what they're clicking on, is a much better user experience than using a universal shortener which says nothing about the content.
the big news imho is "Datasift" (twitter partnering with tweetmeme for):
"Scalable platform for developers to build very precise streams of data from the millions and millions of status updates sent every day.<p><pre><code> * Tune tweets through a graphical interface or our bespoke programming language
* Streams consumable through our API and real-time HTTP
* Comment upon and rank streams created by the community
* Extend one or more existing streams to create super streams
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DataSift is designed to work at scale, serving hundreds of thousands of real-time streams and processing millions of rules every second. We hope that the product will allow developers to focus on the building of amazing new user experiences and let us worry about delivering the right content to the right person."
How do you get around the problem of one of these widgets taking forever to load and slowing down your site's render time? I noticed with the "Like" button that it was, on average, too slow to use on our home page. Am I doing it wrong?<p>We have a "Tweet this" link above our maps that has been getting good usage, and costs us nothing in terms of YADNSLU (yet another DNS lookup).
I wonder if they're going to be doing the same sneaky tracking via cookies and iframe that the Like Button does irrespective of whether you actually interact with it or not.
can someone explain the "business arrangement" they made with tweetmeme? will tweetmeme get their data in exchange for showing them how to build this? (they say the new code is 100% original to twitter though)....<p>also curious as to why twitter didn't BUY tweetmeme.
Man, this was a long time coming - but I do hope twitter will embed links smartly - as in a la facebook style preview of a page snippet or play youtube from twitter itself.
So what does this mean for Backtype and Tweetmeme?<p>I gather that Tweetmeme has some kind of partner deal... but what are the particulars? Is it short term or long term?