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"Finding the Really Popular Tweets"

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "I have a terrible time following Twitter. There are lots of people who have interesting Tweets, but I don't like to hang around and watch the stream all day. I can add list activity to Listimonkey but what seems to me to be the ideal solution is still not available. (The ideal solution is to have Twitter lists available as RSS feeds. TWITTER ARE YOU LISTENING!? ARGH!) Ahem. The fact remains that I worry about missing things.

The Web site Chirrps (http://chirrps.com/) offers one potential solution -- a directory of popular tweets. The front page has the latest popular tweets and popular tweets in the news category. But there are many other categories available. I looked at the most popular tweets in tech.

Each listing shows the original tweet, an excerpt from the linked article if appropriate, and the date and time tweeted as well as the number of times the item was retweeted.

Continue reading this interesting post and reach the active links by clicking on the author's name.

Source: Research Buzz, 17 August 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on August 18, 2010 (boomark / email).