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Ranking Popularity by # of Replies

By Mark Evans | Published: November 16, 2009
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 generate. [...]
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Topsy Spins Search on its Head

By Mark Evans | Published: May 26, 2009
After three years in development, Topsy has finally launched…and it’s a search engine that actually lives up to the hype. Topsy generates results based on how many times a search term is mentioned on Twitter. The idea is that if something attracts a lot of Tweets, it must be interesting or relevant. What makes Topsy so [...]
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