Exactly one year ago today, I launched Retweet Rank. Just a weekend hack, but turned out to be a lot more useful service than what I expected. Retweet Rank was the first service to track retweets and measure influence of twitter users based on how frequently they are retweeted and continues to be a favorite place on the web.

The traffic numbers are not bad. To date, retweet ranks of 760,000 users have been looked up. Every month, thousands of users tweet their rank and over 50,000 unique users visit the site.

Things which delighted me the most were tiny mentions of the service from folks like Evan Williams, Robert Scoble, Tim O’Reilly, Guy Kawasaki, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb and many more. It also got highlighted in five books, including a bestseller, Web Analytics 2.0, by Avinash Kaushik.

Retweet Rank is a playground for me. I have been experimenting with SEO, placements, messaging, advertising, related users, etc. I will continue to do small changes to make the retweet tracking and quality measurement on twitter easier. It would be interesting to know what new you would like to see on Retweet Rank. If you have any thoughts, do leave your comments below.

Thank you all for the support and wish you a very Happy New year!

Matt Harding dancing with Hulis Wigmen in Papua New Guinea, in zero gravity in Nevada, with Bollywood dancers in India
and in front of the Sydney Opera House. [Photo source: The Age]

Matt also visited Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale and shot 33 scenes across the campus. Jerry, Sue, Y! execs and several Yahoos joined the Matt dance. Video.

A few days back I was trekking with my IITB friends at Siddarabetta, about 100kms from Bangalore, and there the idea to dance like Matt stuck us. It was damn funny to dance like Matt, we all were just laughing all the time. Hope you will enjoy watching the  video. Take a peak:

In the background, is a bengali song: Praan composed by Garry Schyman with lyrics adapted from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore. The song also tops my playlist these days

Dancers as they arrive in the above video sequence (L to R): Kuldeep Gharat, Saurabh Sahni (me ), Kanika Nema, Bhavana Dalvi, Meghana Kshirsagar, Aditya Mishra, Kautilya Jain, Anuj Tripathi, Uma Sawant, Esha Palta, Unmesh Deshmukh and Janak Chandarana.

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MyBlogLog was acquired by Yahoo! in Jan 2007. Working for the MyBlogLog team has been a great fun for me. We enjoy the benefits of the big Yahoo! infrastructure as well as a startup culture with strong focus on innovation. Even as a newbie, we have opportunity to try out our ideas. This idea of the open recommendation engine clicked me sometime back. We implemented it quickly, filed a patent too and here is the launch. It is just wonderful to have this opportunity to develop innovative new products that tons of people find useful. Many Thanks to Pankaj, Ian and Todd!