I released TweetLists last night, well actually this morning (about 3am), the idea being to try and capture a little of the zeitgeist on Twitter by aggregating the links people are talking about. At the moment there are 3 lists, the live feed, a popular feed (the links ordered by the number of times they appeared) and one I have chosen to call Twitterati (quite proud of that!) which is the links ordered by the number of followers people have.
At the moment there is no time aspect to the Twitterati or Popular lists (not relevant on the live one) but I guess I will make them for the last 7 days?
Lesson one form this has been: don’t try and be clever with your scheduling – cron just works. I tried to use the Rufus Scheduler and it had stopped running by the time I got up again this morning.
Anyhoo, I’ve found it to be fun and interesting so far, any ideas for other lists?
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Hi Scott,
You typo’d the link to "tweetlists.com" as "tweelists.com", which is presumably a much more whimsical website.
(Oh, and the links are missing the protocol bit)
But tweetlists is an interesting idea. Will keep an eye on it! Maybe you should factor in the same people posting the same link – currently the most popular link appears to be because somebody twittered it 4 times.
Long time no see – everything going ok?
Cheers,
Neil (ex-Cominded)
@Neil, thanks fixed those links. I have now fixed the same link thing and an issue with the user id twitter give not being a unique identifier – had to use the screen name instead. Hope all is well. Scott.
Looks very interesting. I agree that the totals for resolved links should be combined (e.g. the current top two are different tinyurls which resolve to the same link).
Could you make revenue from this by charging people who want to know if keywords or links are being twittered about?
@George, yep I didn’t take account of trailing slashes, doh!! I have a fix and once this crappy internet connection allows to deploy again I will fix it!!! Hadn’t really thought about revenue, just thought it was an interesting idea. Once it has a bit of data and I fix the obvious errors then maybe there is something there on a b2b basis – brand awareness sort of thing.