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What's the proceedure for getting included on Techmeme?

• nikcub 15y ago
  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
  • chrisacky 15y ago
    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,".
    • nikcub 15y ago
      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