There are currently two kinds of heavy twitter users: the ones who love the retweet, and the ones who don't. A retweet is when one individual copies a tweet from someone in their network and shares it with their network - it's like the Twitter equivalent of the "forward" in e-mail, and the "quote" in blogging. I love retweets, because I think they're a perfect way to give credits where credit is due, but @lamazone (of TalkingHeads fame) begs to differ. But the good thing is, that thanks to her funny self-referential and retweet-rich pointer to @samharrelson's how much do i hate retweets? let me count the ways I discovered retweetradar. Retweetradar finds "trends in the mountains of information 'retweet'ed on Twitter" and is powered by the Google App Engine. I thought if http://www.retweetradar.com/ had URLs, not keywords, it would be a really interesting trend filter. Minutes later @benredington replied this was an interesting idea and 3 hours later he announced tweetradar now also trends @usernames and URLs. Gotta love Twitter!By the way, retweetradar is a sister site of http://spy.appspot.com, some kind of social media 'spy' that listens to the social media conversation on any term from Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr and blogs. You can now stare at the conversations around your favourite keyword in near real time.
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