+ Attach yourself to a story cluster if a relevant one is already there by linking to a source post
+ `tip @techmeme <url>` on twitter
+ Message the editors on twitter
+ Make sure your feed validates, can be autodiscovered etc.
+ Techmeme can discover stories based on retweet counts, so make sure the same canonical URL is being retweeted and favorited from the post, from twitter, disqus etc.
+ Post interesting things frequently enough that you become a source that is crawled by Techmeme
Good advice. I wondered why/how I got included on Techmeme before. I would assume it is based on "Techmeme can discover stories based on retweet counts,".
TM takes hints from a lot of sources - including HN. It has 30k+ sources that it directly crawls itself as well, and uses a lot of different hints to work out what is popular. The biggest hint to a big story is inbound links from other blogs that are also sources, and from there things like popularity on social media
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What's the proceedure for getting included on Techmeme?
Good question. A combination of a few things:
+ Attach yourself to a story cluster if a relevant one is already there by linking to a source post
+ `tip @techmeme <url>` on twitter
+ Message the editors on twitter
+ Make sure your feed validates, can be autodiscovered etc.
+ Techmeme can discover stories based on retweet counts, so make sure the same canonical URL is being retweeted and favorited from the post, from twitter, disqus etc.
+ Post interesting things frequently enough that you become a source that is crawled by Techmeme
Good advice. I wondered why/how I got included on Techmeme before. I would assume it is based on "Techmeme can discover stories based on retweet counts,".
TM takes hints from a lot of sources - including HN. It has 30k+ sources that it directly crawls itself as well, and uses a lot of different hints to work out what is popular. The biggest hint to a big story is inbound links from other blogs that are also sources, and from there things like popularity on social media