Twitter Social News Mashups that Kick Social News Ass
Wisdom of crowds has proven very useful in organizing the information overflow of the Web. Sadly though the first wave of social news sites Reddit are broken.
There is a social site that has ongoing success though that has changed 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. Third party 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, interfaces or tools have already disappeared again but a few of them grow while others, new ones appear. My favorite is the "Twitter newspaper" Tweeted Times that collects links tweeted by your friends and their friends.
What are the Twitter social news mashups that social news ass?
Tweeted Times
The Tweeted Times is the best social news mashup I've seen so far. It not only finds the most popular stories or links it also personalizes them.
You can view the stories linked by people a particular user follows. Just check mine to understand that.
Also you can check out the most linked stories from renowned sources like the NYT or widely known groups of people from certain areas of expertise. I read my Tweeted Times almost daily.
Topsy
Topsy is the best at collecting and displaying Twitter links. It's more a Twitter search engine but it has an excellent "trending" section in several languages.
The German one works perfectly. I use Topsy almost daily as well both as a Twitter search alternative and as a social news interface. You can search for the most popular links or tweets for a given query. The screen shot above shows the most tweeted SEO links last month.
These sites are at the forefront of the Twitter social news trend. In contrast highly biased social news sites where marauding troll groups censor topics that don't fit their world view lose ground.
Twitter is the number one place for social news by now.
You just have to know how to find the most popular news there. These tools are more than enough to achieve that.
Last updated January 29, 2013. First published: January 19, 2009.
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.
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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
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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?
Twitter can be used to engage the customer and to build brand loyalty.
More a communication tool than a selling tool.
Typically twitter users won’t buy stuff if they land on your pages via a link.
It’s nice to see that all 6 sites mentioned are still alive and well, one year later. I love the traffic I get from these resources, but wonder what value I get from having all their linkbacks in my comments section. Topsy, in particular, sends a link for each comment, so it can get pretty long, and I’m not sure people really read them. On the other hand, it does add a bit of credibility to the thought “wow, other people like this, too” which probably helps in readership retention.
Hi, Awesome post about Twitter. I think Twitter is going to be one of the stronger networks because of the fact that it is supported by so many industries. I also think when Twitter introduces some of it’s new functions, returning traffic will increase to show the real growth of the network. Keep up the great work!
I hadn’t been aware of a twitter mash up before i read this article, the twitter times is a great tool.
Hey Victoria, there is even a better mashup mimicking a Twitter newspaper by now. It’s http://paper.li/
I may add it to the list in the future.
Didn’t know, now I know. Thanks