Posted on July 27, 2009 - by Kelly Verge
Top Ten Tools to Track Twitter Trends
Watching the trends on Twitter can be a good way to do real-time market research. These trends can also help spot the hottest news stories – those that have “viral potential.”
Even for the average Twitter user, these hot trends often point out the coolest subjects.
There are lots of tools that can help you stay on top of the latest trends on Twitter without needing to be glued to Twitter all day. Here are some of my favorites:
- Twitter Search – It’s simple. On the other hand it displays the top 10 topics real-time in a basic display. Additionally, if you click on the tiny link for “Advanced Search,” you can do some pretty cool things.
- Tweetmeme – This site shows which URL’s (web pages) are being tweeted the most. If you’re interested in staying on top of the hottest stories or news, this site might be for you.
- Twitterfall – This strangely hypnotic site shows the real-time tweets that contain the selected trending phrase or your search phrase.
- Trendyobot – Follow this bot within Twitter and he’ll send you the latest trends as the start happening.
- #hashtags – This site tracks trending hashtags. Hashtags are a way of being involved in a wider conversation than with “regular” tweets.
- Twitt(url)y – This is another site that tracks the most tweeted URL’s. They present the information in a different format than Tweetmeme, so use whichever one you like best.
- Monitter – This site also tracks either the hottest trends or your specific search terms, but it also has a widget you can place on your website.
- Twist – Pretty cool Twitter trend site that displays a graph of the trend.
- Retweet Radar – This site shows the topics that are retweeted (RT) the most on Twitter. The topics are displayed in a cloud format. They also show the people and URL’s that are retweeted the most.
- Tweetizen – Shows Twitter trending topics and allows you to only show trends in areas that interest you.
- TweetGrid – While this site doesn’t give you the trending topics, I’ve included it as #11 because it’s a useful search tool.
If you know of a cool Twitter trending tool or site that I haven’t listed, place a link to it in a comment so that I can check it out, too.
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July 27, 2009
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Hey Kelly, this is an excellent top ten list. These are all excellent tools to track what is popular and relevant on Twitter. Search and hastags together work really well for us not only to see what the Twitter world i talking about, but to really be able to find top ten lists or specific topics of interest. I think in a way these have the same power of traditional search engine like Google or yahoo, but at a micro level. You can cross-post this to our site http://www.toptentopten.com/ and link back to your site. We are trying to create a directory for top ten lists where people can find your site. The coolest feature is you can let other people vote on the rankings of your list.
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July 27, 2009
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Don’t forget http://www.twitscoop.com/
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July 28, 2009
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Hey Kelly, this is an excellent top ten list. These are all excellent tools to track what is popular and relevant on Twitter.I really enjoyed it