Tweetmeme Creators Bet Their Future on Twitter Retweets

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Pete Cashmore
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Tweetmeme Creators Bet Their Future on Twitter Retweets
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The founders of fav.or.it, a filtering service that aimed to make reading the news easier through smart prioritization of RSS feeds, today announced they are retiring their news ranking site.

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The ability to change your original vision is a flexibility all entrepreneurs need. Twitter itself was famously a side project of podcasting startup Odeo - the founders sold that company when they saw Twitter taking off. No one can blame the fav.or.it folks for cutting their losses and focusing on the part of their business that's making the most progress.

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