Twitter apps war looming?

How’s this for timing? The day that we decide to add the TweetMeme Twitter button to our blog (that’s it on the left), is the same day I end up writing about them in a tech news story for the first time.

That’s because the good people at TweetMeme have just accused a ‘soon to launch’ rival (called ReTweet) of copying their idea…. and some of their code too!

ReTweet flattery

In a post on Tweetmeem’s blog, Nick Halstead explains how ‘flattered’ he is, to find someone copying his idea.  Apparently, he found out about the ReTweet flattery, while reading a post on techcrunch:

What caught my attention was that some industrious individual (@travisketchum) had left a comment on the TechCrunch article that he had been doing some digging around on the website and had found a link to their development environment.  What we found ourselves was that our retweet button Javascript and the WordPress plugin code seemed to have been directly copied from ours.

He goes on to say that they are seeking legal advice regarding the situation.

If you have a few minutes, I recommend you take a look at Nick Halstead’s post. Also, check out Caroline McCarthy’s post about this over on Cnet.