I don’t know if you heard or not, but there is a new retweeting site that just opened up today. Retweet.com is the website. They want to overtake tweetmeme.com and are not shy about it. Retweet.com is offering a chance for their first million users to win $10,000.
We’d like to take this opportunity to announce the public release of Retweet.com and give you a brief overview of what makes it special. When retweet.com goes live tomorrow [ 8/19/09 ] at around [ 12pm EST ] you will find we are running a competition to entice early adopters of tweetmeme.com to try retweet.com. The competition page, that will be found here ( http://retweet.com/win10k ) tomorrow will be announcing our $10,000 reward that will go to one lucky blogger who implements our retweet button, rewarded once we reach 1 million visitors. We believe that users should have the opportunity to be rewarded for helping a website succeed.
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Retweet is the official place to find real-time news on popular stories, images, and videos. We provide this service by scanning thousands of updates on the worlds most popular micro-blogging service, Twitter.com and with the help of the future users whom have added our retweet button to their blog. The word retweet has now become one of the most popular terms online and thus makes the retweet.com brand name very powerful. We now live in a world where for the first time in history real-time news is possible thanks to modern web technologies and crowd sourced content creation, retweet is here to leverage this modern way of announcing and discovering news. We pride ourselves in providing “news for the people, by the people”.. meaning we do not decide what news finds it’s way to the home page of our site.”
It’s interesting that they publicly claim that they’re directly targeting Tweetmeme users. It’s also interesting that the $10k prize requires a million visitors. What standard will they use to measure that?
They have the original retweet button because they are retweet.com. The page looks appeasing when reviewing the front page. They seem to want to be your new news source for bloggers. A lot of people have already signed up, so you better make sure that you get in before their 1 millionth customer to be eligible for the contest.
John Botch
Laserburnmedia.com
john@laserburnmedia.com
