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Over the last couple of months, I've gotten myself into Twittering more and trying to see how this could be a useful tool to me.  I've found that by following a number of prolific Twitterers, that I can keep my finger on the pulse of a number of subject areas.  One of the problems I ran into is that I often feel that I'm missing out on half of the conversation and wanted to easily see the whole conversation around specific memes.  That's when the concept of a tweme (Twitter meme) came up.  A tweme is a tag that gets included in twitter posts about a particular meme.  This makes it possible to look at twitter posts from the perspective of that meme and see what the whole twittersphere is saying about it.

As a first approximation of what viewing twemes would be like, I've create Twemes.com.  Twemes.com shows the most recent twemes as extracted from the Twitter public status stream as well as a "tweme cloud" of the most active twemes.  You can also view and bookmark pages of specific twemes so that you can follow the twittersphere's thoughts on that meme.