Tweetmeme.com - Tracking Hot Tweets

Thought Tweet-tracking was exhausted, played-out, overfed, and curiously just too much? Think again. Tweetmeme begs to differ with its new online conversation tracker. Tweetmeme is a mashup app that tracks what’s cool and being talked about among the Twitter crowd. Whatever’s being talk about most, gets a higher ranking. Tweetmeme tracks new and old content to see just what’s hot in the Twiiter sphere. With Tweetmeme, you can literally track when and how a website goes viral. All new content is cast into the virtual ‘river’ and set float for others to jump on. Content is also categorized into blogs, audio, video and images. There’s RSS feeds for the river as well. See what everyone’s twittering about; don’t get left out.

“I am pleased to announce the launch of a new service tweetmeme. I have started using twitter a lot more recently to find out what is ‘going on’ and many people who I had discussed twitter with were saying the same thing. What I believed was missing was a way to spot content that is posted on twitter and work out what is popular.

Thus tweetmeme was born, put simply it watches what is going on within twitter and picks up anyone posting links to content. We then track how many other mentions of the same content are made (and how influential they are.) and present them in a simple format.”

Tweetmeme takes Twitter/tweet tracking to where users are comfortable. It uses a familiar ranking system to keep track of what’s hot in the mini-conversation world. It’s great for wasting time or entertaining yourself a little.

Is Tweetmeme necessary? Will there be enough Twitter users who find the most popular tweets interesting?--especially Tweetmeme’s which has plenty of competition.