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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Ranking Popularity by # of Replies
There’s a variety of ways to rank the popularity of particular tweets – some such as Topsy do it by the number of retweets (RTs), while some such as tweetmeme focus on the most popular links. Another approach is taken by Tweetply, which ranks the popularity of tweets based on the number of replies they [...]
tweetcloud: A View from the Clouds
There are plenty of ways to see what’s happening on Twitter, and the trending issues. A particularly user-friendly tool to get a handle on Twitter activity is tweetcloud, which provides a tag clouds for particular keywords or Twitter user. For example, here’s a tag cloud (aka tweetcloud) for H1N1: …and here’s a tweetcloud for me [...]
SnapBird Dives Deep into Twitter
A constant refrain from this blog is the inability to dive deep into Twitter’s archives for tweets from the past. Apparently, Twitter is working on this feature but until it arrives, getting access to archives is a frustrating exercise. A new player in the Twitter archive market is SnapBird, which is offering a new service [...]
Brizzly: Twitter With a Twist
Update: Brizzly is now available to everyone. TechCrunch reports it has also rolled out a new instant-translation feature. Over the past few days, I’ve been using Brizzly, a Web-based service to manage Twitter accounts. In a market with no lack of competition, Brizzly seems to be counting on a more friendly and intuitive look and [...]
Twitter.com Still Rules the Roost