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2 Jan

Retweet Rank Documents Topical Influence & Audience Interest

by Brian Solis

It’s the week for new Twitter Apps to say the least. On the heels of our coverage of Replies by TwitApps, we’re now introduced to Retweet Rank.

Retweetrank measures the RT reach and topical influence of anyone on Twitter by calculating the number of RT’s associated with a username. It then ranks the results based on the quantity of retweets (the close to 1, the better) and also provides an approximate percentile representing the overall position over the general Twitter population (100% equals complete authority).

Retweet rank also publishes a Top 50 leaderboard that seems to be updated automatically as they standings fluctuate.

Here’s the current Top 50 at the time of this post:

  1. Guy Kawasaki (guykawasaki)
  2. Chris Brogan (chrisbrogan)
  3. Calvin Lee (mayhemstudios)
  4. Jesse Newhart (JesseNewhart)
  5. Michael Arrington (TechCrunch)
  6. Reg Saddler ?? (zaibatsu)
  7. Shorty Awards (shortyawards)
  8. Darren Rowse (problogger)
  9. BNO News (BreakingNewsOn)
  10. Pete Cashmore (mashable)
  11. Tim O’Reilly (timoreilly)
  12. BILLROMANOS (BILL_ROMANOS)
  13. Robert Scoble (Scobleizer)
  14. David Armano (Armano)
  15. Andy Sowards (andysowards)
  16. The Onion (TheOnion)
  17. Sarah Evans (PRsarahevans)
  18. Lisa thdomesticdiva (domestic_diva)
  19. Kevin Rose (kevinrose)
  20. Laura Fitton (Pistachio)
  21. styletime (styletime)
  22. Manifest Mastermind (manifestmmind)
  23. ColonelTribune (ColonelTribune)
  24. Carrie Wilkerson (barefoot_exec)
  25. Zappos.com CEO -Tony (zappos)
  26. shel israel (shelisrael)
  27. Gaza news and facts (gazanews)
  28. Peter Shankman (skydiver)
  29. Jay Rosen (jayrosen_nyu)
  30. Steve Rubel (steverubel)
  31. Dave Winer (davewiner)
  32. The New York Times (nytimes)
  33. remarkablogger (remarkablogger)
  34. Tim Storm (fatwallet)
  35. noradsanta (noradsanta)
  36. sugree (sugree)
  37. Tips, Tools & Status (Twitter_Tips)
  38. Atherton Bartelby (ABartelby)
  39. Graham Smith (imjustcreative)
  40. Evan Williams (ev)
  41. Bert Decker (BertDecker)
  42. CNN.com (cnn)
  43. Twitter (twitter)
  44. Breaking News (BreakingNewz)
  45. Happy Holidays! (wellwishes)
  46. Damien Basile (DamienBasile)
  47. Damien Basile (DamienBasile)
  48. Ann Handley (MarketingProfs)
  49. Perry Belcher (perrybelcher)
  50. Blair Warren (blairwarren)

For more tools, apps, and services for Twitter, please read, “Twitter Tools for Communications and Community Professionals.”

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28 Dec

Tweetree Pulls Shared Content from the Web into Your Timeline

by Brian Solis

It seems that all the buzz this morning in the Twittersphere is centered around Tweetree, a new service that attempts to thread related conversations in Twitter. Considered an alternative for those who read and post updates through Twitter.com, Tweetree also allows people to share content directly in the timeline. By simply including a link from YouTube, Flickr, TwitPic, FriendFeed, Seesmic, Qik, Lala, or Blip.fm, Tweetree embeds the content inline for others to enjoy without leaving the service.

Personally, I am a big fan of an integrated experience and having access to pictures, videos, audio in my Twitter stream. However, the conversation threading leaves much to be desired. As TechCrunch points out, Quotably did a better job of organizing discussions. Unfortunately, Quotably has since shut down.

Tweetree is the creation of Draconis Software, a boutique web development company in Woburn, MA.

For more on services available for Twitter, please read, “Twitter Tools for Communications and Community Professionals” on PR 2.0.

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