July 28th, 2009

Updated: Retweet.com's reputation will be permanently stained by the Tweetmeme affair

Now the dust has settled a bit, let’s take a look at exactly what happened yesterday. At around 2pm in the afternoon, after reading our story about a new challenger to Tweetmeme called Retweet.com, TechCrunch commenter @travisketchum found the live, public server where Retweet.com’s files were being kept. The TechCrunch community quickly found remarkable similarities between… → Read More

July 27th, 2009

Defending Its Turf, TweetMeme Is Already Threatening To Sue ReTweet

It hasn’t even been 24 hours since we wrote about the impending launch of TweetMeme competitor ReTweet, and already TweetMeme founder Nick Halstead is threatening ReTweet with a lawsuit. He takes being king of retweets very seriously.

It is not so much the apparent flat-out copying of TweetMeme’s Website design (ReTweet has not even launched in private beta yet), that bothers him. After all… → Read More

July 26th, 2009

Retweet.com Looks To Be A TweetMeme Competitor With A Killer Domain Name

Those little green reweet buttons you see across the web on sites like this one have helped TweetMeme rise in popularity. The buttons are now so ubiquitous that the service has seemingly become the de-facto retweeting mechanism for content on the web. But it looks like it’s about to get a challenger, with a killer name, Retweet.com.

Retweet.com currently only has a a landing page saying that it’s… → Read More