Find Top Topics with TweetMeme October 12, 2009
Posted by cuyler in Twitter, Web Development, WordPress.1 comment so far
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:
Tweet Analysis with Twitalytic August 24, 2009
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In the latest episode of the This Week in Google podcast, Lifehacker Gina Trapani discusses Twitalytic, her web server program that archives Twitter posts. It retrieves all the tweets from you, your followers and the followers of your followers storing them in a database on your server.
Besides archiving the tweets, it performs some analysis and shows different views of the data. It performs statistics on replies to your tweets and tracks conversations. It also tells you which followers are the most responsive and which followers share friends with you.
Like Gina, I want to be able to go back and review what I post and when I said it. I didn’t see any obvious way to archive my tweets, so earlier this year I wrote a simple Python program to save my Twitter stream. Gina’s Twitalytic service archives more and incorporates the information into a website. This gives it the potential to become a powerful web communication tool and aid for crowd-sourcing. – Twitalyic
