Monday, March 19, 2007

Twitterbuzz - what are people linking to from Twitter

As previously mentioned, I was playing with Twitter lately; my profile is here. Now, Twitter has a quite easy-to-use API, so I decided to play with it. The result is TwitterBuzz, a site which shows what sites people are currently linking to most in their Twitter posts. It's a bit like Alexa's SiteRank thing for Twitter; the results are of course generally quite different. Give it a go!

I plan to add a few more features, like link popularity over time, at some point.
Posted by Robert Synnott at 2:08 AM
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8 comments:

  1. Ilya LichtensteinMar 18, 2007 08:01 PM
    Very cool! Combined with twitter zeitgeist this could offer a very interesting look into what people are, er, twitting.
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  2. Wow -- what a great idea! Love it!

    Any chance you could also link back to the original statuses?
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  3. Robert SynnottMar 18, 2007 08:14 PM
    Yep. I'm tired right now and need sleep, but tomorrow I plan to have a list of statuses available for each link. I'm also hoping to plot link popularity over time and have data for domains, and so on.

    Could also show which users post links the most :)
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  4. I never thought I'd say it, but this is one service that would really benefit from a link preview technology like Snap.
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  5. Robert SynnottMar 18, 2007 09:34 PM
    It'll shortly tell you the title of the offending website, which is something, I suppose...
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  6. Robert SynnottMar 18, 2007 09:45 PM
    My apologies for the previous hideousness in Internet Explorer, by the way. I generally use MacOS, so hadn't seen it. CSS silliness. Fixed now.
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  7. Luistxo - TagzaniaMar 20, 2007 01:12 PM
    Twitterbuzz is great. I was going to suggest domain tracking, but I see it's on your to-do list

    however, one extra suggestion for those domain data: they might be prone to some sort of twitterspam: twitterbots that post links to themselves all the time, self-linking obsesive twitters... some algorithm like maximum 1 domain per user per day might be needed. Anyway, congrats and keep the good work, twitter tagzania just befriended you ;-)
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  8. You got Hotlink Level Two'd.

    http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks/archives/2007/03/25/#item71867

    Well done.
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