Wisdom of crowds has proven very useful in organizing the information overflow of the Web. Sadly though the first wave of social news sites like Digg and Reddit are broken to the point where some topics (like SEO) are banned for good while the second wave, Mixx or Social|Median is still not ready to take over.
There is a social site that has huge success currently though that could change the face of social news, Twitter.
How that, isn’t Twitter just social networking and one to a few communications?
Well, yes, but that’s not the whole truth. Several sites have sprung up that analyze Twitter wisdom of crowds to organize and highlight the most important news and trends on the Web.
Some of these social news mashups have already disappeared again but a few of them grows while others, new ones appear. Just today I noticed a site that collects retweets to display them in a social news like manner, Retweetist.
What are the 5 Twitter social news mashups that kick Digg’s ass?
Twitturly
This very Digg-like social news interface for Twitter is amazingly popular, it has been almost overwhelmed with its success and seeks donations for larger severs to keep up with the traffic growth. I love it. It’s very simple to gain a quick overview on what’s going on at Twitter and thus also what’s hot on the Web right now. It also has a killer feature, the language filter, which shows you the most popular tweets in more than a dozen languages.
Twitturls
This site is somewhat similar to Twitturly but it focuses more on the most recent tweets which also are popular, an interface that confuses me a little. It has an advantage though, it displays popular images and videos too.
Retweetist
Retweetist focus only on retweeted links that is links that got repupblished with a “RT” or “retweet” in the message. This way it only displays the links that are really viral, only those where people decided to spread them after visiting. It looks very good from day one.
Trendrr
This site is quite confusing at first, it’s very complex compared to the others. Trendrr combines user and keyword popularity stats with time based chart data. You can follow trends over longer periods of time here. Trendrr does not only feature Twitter stats. It also compiles and displays other data like “NYC Pillow Fight 2008 Attendees”.
MicroBlogBuzz
While MicroBlogBuzz resembles both Twitturly and Twitturls it also shows an overview of two of the other Twitter-like microblogging sites namely Jaiku and Identica. As Google has discontinued Jaiku we will see whether it can still be an additional asset in the future. The best thing about this service are the several time frame options. You can check out what’s popular today, this week etc.
Like I predicted, 2009 will be the year of meta social media. These sites are at the forefront of this trend. Highly biased social news sites where marauding troll groups censor topics that don’t fit their world view will hopefully lose ground.
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Very nice article. Thanks for sharing the links.
There were a few not present in Twitdom – The Twitter Applications Database.
I’ll be adding it to the database shortly.
Thank you for turning me on to these new tools. I was not aware of them. Oh the fun I will have today with this new research.
I just barely started really getting into twitter, and am just now seeing how many uses it has, a great idea to make a whole mashup site out of people tweets! “Breaking News” on digg is 8 hours old lol
Nice article. Looks like Twitter’s really making some headway. Thanks and look forward to reading more!
I didn’t know about these sites. I will immediately see what they’re all about. Why do they have to be related to Twitter in the way they are named?
I just started using twitter a few days ago on our company blog, how does twitter enhance your SEO?
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