Find Top Topics with TweetMeme

The latest episode of Net@Night interviews Nick Halstead of TweetMeme.  TweetMeme is a service that examines all Twitter posts and categorizes them. It crawls through links and determines which articles are getting the most mentions. This helps find the stories getting the most attention at any given time.  This is a little different than Twitter’s trending topics, because TweetMeme does not just look at the content of the tweets, but also at the content of the links inside the tweet. Go to TweetMeme and try it.

Web pages can include a TweetMeme button that shows a popularity count and makes it simple for readers to Twitter about the site.  Currently the button cannot be used WordPress.com blogs, but TweetMeme is trying to garner support.

TweetMeme also offers a paid Twitter Analytics service that gives website owners detailed reports on how their content spreads through Twitter. In this video, Nick Halstead demos its features: