Tweetmeme Tracks the Twittersphere


With more and more people piling on to Twitter it is getting to the point where it would be impossible to personally track every interesting person to find the compelling links. Enter Tweetmeme, a Techmeme for Twitter.

Just like Techmeme, Tweetmeme looks for the hot topics and aggregates the conversations into a list so you can see at a glance what people are discussing. Popular topics that are being covered by Twitter power users bubble to the top, with items categorized to split out audio and video from text.


Right now the top story is Tweetmeme itself so how useful it will be remains to be seen. I can see it doing very well providing it really can track every conversation, something other services have struggled to do.

I have said a few times now that I am increasingly getting my news from Twitter. Services such as this one just might take that trend even further. Techmeme had the power to send a flood of traffic to listed blogs, I wonder if this service will create Twitter celebrities?

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Web 2.0

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