Retweeting is a great way to get yourself noticed on Twitter and a great way to thank users you like or respect. And now there’s an easy way to see if you are being retweeted yourself. Retweetrank is a simple little site which lets you see how much you have been retweeted recently.

Retweet rank is a representative of the number of times a user have been retweeted by others recently.

Retweetrank lets you find rank of any twitter user. With the rank, latest retweets of the user are shown and an RSS feed can also be grabbed for the same. Monitoring retweets can provide a better understanding of audience to the originator while others can see the most interesting tweets of a user.

The top ranked twitter users, who have been most retweeted recently, are listed in the leaderboard. They are the once producing most interesting content across the twittersphere.

I found this site very useful. It illustrates how retweeting someone elses link is likely to get it retweeted again. It also shows that there is a good chance the original linker will repay the favour to you by retweeting one of your posts or links.

I got a Retweet rank of 5224 (approx 93.25 percentile). Are your links being retweeted? I recommend visiting Retweetrank and finding out

Link : Retweetrank

I suppose it was only a matter of time before a service like this came up. Tweexchange is a new service which lets users sell Twitter names they are squatting. Alkready there are hundreds of people listing twitter accounts for sale at ridiculous prices.

The website proudly tells visitors that ‘All the cool kids are doing it, CNN recently bought CNNBRK’. Their terms of service page though states that :

• This site is for entertainment purposes only.
• You use this site at your own risk.
• Buying and selling names on twitter is against THEIR terms of use.
• Tweexchange has zero involvement in the transferring of passwords/names.

I’m personally against this kind of thing. These kind of sites promote Name Squatting. Unfortunately, there are already thousands of people doing this and using software to snap up Twitter names of popular blogs and websites.

Before registering TimeToTweet.com I checked to see if the twitter username was there was stupidly never registered it at the time. I launched the blog the next day and then went to register the username and every variation of the name had been taken. I contacted Twitter about this but as I have mentioned previously, Twitter does not seem to answer any support tickets.

Twitter are not proactive against people abusing Twitter either so I see name squatting getting worst and worst. Large companies will probably get their trademarked names back quite easily. You only have to look at the actions of Google and other high profile internet companies that when a large multinational company complains about something, they usually get their way.

But for the rest of us, getting a squatted name back could be a real pain in the ass and you might have to bite the bullet and actually buy it. If you own a blog or website or are in some way known on the web, I encourage you all to register a twitter account with your full name, company name and any asliases that you use online. It could save you a lot of hassle in the future.

What’s your opinion on this?

Link : Tweexchange