**by Greg Finn**
Looking to find out how popular your blog post was on Twitter? Want
to know what tweets people really enjoy? Well, these Twitter-based
applications can help you see the most popular trends on Twitter by
aggregating tweets.
1. Tweetmeme
By far the most popular tweet aggregator, Tweetmeme
<http://tweetmeme.com/>
lists the most popular links on Twitter. Much like Digg, the stories
can then be viewed across 40+ different categories and also segmented
by Images, News or Video. The top URLs for the day can be easily
located in the popular sections. A user history can be found if you
select a username, so you can see how many tweets each of the last ten
links in a given user's Twitter stream has received.
Tweetmeme offers an attractive button
<http://tweetmeme.com/about/retweet_button>
for your website that can help to gather retweets and let visitors
know which stories are the most popular. A "chicklet"
<http://blog.tweetmeme.com/2009/07/16/retweet-chicklet/>
is also offered to showcase the entire number of tweets for a domain
rather than a story so visitors can see the best historical tweets. If
you want to bring some of the top links to your site, then the
Tweetmeme widget <http://widget.tweetmeme.com/>
can quickly allow you to customize and easily integrate elsewhere.
How it works
Tweetmeme scans Twitter and logs links from all of the Twitter
accounts. Then it decodes shortened links so it can attribute a real
number to the destination article. The following URL shorteners are
supported:
TinyURL.com <http://tinyurl.com/>
lopurls.us <http://lopurls.us/>
Webmasters should simply place the Tweetmeme button on their site,
then sit back and watch the tweets roll in!
2. Twitturly
The Twitturly <http://twitturly.com/>
service acts just like Tweetmeme, but the overall interface is
scaled back. There are no categories or widgets, but a few unique
features make Twitturly a very helpful tool. The "profiles" tab
allows users to type in their name and see the stats on all of their
tweets (not just 10). Another helpful search that can be performed is
a "My Top 100″ search that will fetch the top 100 links tweeted by
your followers so you can get an consensus on the most popular links
from the people you follow.
How it works
The profile and top 100 searches simply leverage the Twitter API and
store the data. The number of tweets on a link is said to count all
shortened links:
"We always count the "votes" correctly because our spiders
actually visit every single site before it gets displayed here."
3. Twittl
Twittl <http://www.twittl.com/>
is an interesting platform that allows users to submit their
favorite tweets rather than simply aggregating links from Twitter.
This site is extremely original in the fact that it allows users to
not only submit and vote on the best actual tweets, but also puts them
in context with the description and to comment on the specific tweets.
How it works
Users must submit the specific tweet to Twittl and assign it a title
and a description. Then users can vote for that tweet or they could
bury that tweet (a negative vote). The tweets that have the most votes
are promoted to the popular page, while those that lack the proper
voting support stay in the "upcoming stories" section.
Twittl could become popular in the near future for celebrity
information as the tweets themselves are newsworthy. So someone could
summit Oprah's first ever tweet
<http://twitter.com/Oprah/status/1542224596>
then another user could submit Shaq's response
<http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ/status/1542241989>
and the conversation could begin in the comments.
These different applications are really helping to make Twitter
easier to navigate from a news standpoint, as the top stories and
tweets are being aggregated into an easy-to-consume format. With more
and more beneficial sites popping up like these, just look for Twitter
to keep growing in popularity as users keep receiving more and more
relevant information.
Opinions expressed in the article are those of the author, and not
necessarily Search Engine Land.
Greg Finn <http://searchengineland.com/author/greg-finn/>
is the Director of Internet Marketing for 10e20, a publicity company
that specializes in social media and search marketing services. He has
been in the Internet marketing industry for over 5 years and
specializes in Social Media Marketing. He writes in-depth about social
media and internet marketing on the 10e20 blog
<http://www.10e20.com/blog>
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