12 Twitter Stream Aggregators To Make You Smarter | Online Marketing Blog

There are so many Tweets and so little time. What’s a “Tweeple” todo? Twitter aggregator and trend websites use a variety of tactics tofilter out what’s up and coming and of interest to the Twittersphere incontrast to the mass of mundane Tweets.  Twitter stream aggregators areuseful for a variety of reasons ranging from discovery of news tocompetitive research:

As a Twitter user, you can discover what kinds ofTweets are most often passed along (a “retweet” or “RT”) and use thatinsight for your own Twitter use. The same learning opportunity existsfor companies using Twitter.

As a Twitter marketer, you can monitor up andcoming stories as well as the Twitter users posting them to identifynew connections. Retweet someone else’s stories and they may return thefavor. Better yet, you may have topics in common and develop businessconnections.

As a blogger or journalist using Twitter,aggregator sites are priceless for finding news items early in theirupward trend towards becoming buzz. With limited time and peopleresources, Twitter is an essential news sourcing tool for journalists,reporters, analysts and bloggers.

Building your network on Twitter can be facilitatedby finding, posting or retweeting remarkable news. This will stimulateretweets from existing followers providing second level followerexposre and attract even more followers of your own.

There are many more reasons for using Twitter post aggregators butlet’s get to the tools. Here are 12 of those services with our favorite5 to start.

Twitt(url)y -If you like the Digg interface and you like Twitter, then this is thetool for you. Rather than users’ votes, Twitturly counts links postedon Twitter to content in order to include and then rank the content. The more votes an item gets, the higher it displays on the list. Onlythe top 100 items are shown at a time.  Twitturly also tracks thenumber of Tweets with links that a particular Twitter user has posted.This is a nifty feature that can help you see what a particular Twitteruser likes and how ofter their Tweets with links get Retweeted byothers.  Twitturly also gives you the full Tweet History of a URLincluding how many and who Tweeted it, plus the total estimated reach,regardless of how many URL shortening services were used to point toit.   By Joel Strellner

Retweetist -On this site you’ll see a variety of data aggregated all in one place. There’s a list of the freshest, most often Retweeted items, the mostRetweeted items in the past 24 hours and the most Retweeted Twitterusers. You can also see the Retweet history of an individual Twitteruser which shows their daily Retweet frequency and the most recentitems they’ve linked to. Here’s mine.  By Mike Sheetal

Tweetmeme -Unique features with this service include segmenting the kind ofcontent being linked to: Blogs, Images, Video and Audio.  There aremini keyword tag clouds for each Tweet.  Other features include: Ariver of news page with an RSS feed, individual RSS feeds for eachcategory (e.g. images, videos) and historic pages so you can go back toany particular date at 5 minute intervals to see what tweetmeme lookedlike in the past.  By Nick Halstead

TweetLists -This service simply shows the most popular links over the last 24 hoursfound on the public timeline at Twitter.com. There are tabs for mostpopular Tweets of the day and week. There are also lists of the topTwitterati and domains being Tweeted.  A search feature makes it easyto locate specifics.   By Scott Rutherford

Twitter Search- Probably the most popular way to filter Twitter noise is to use thesearch tool. Trending topics are displayed and an array of searchoperators/options allow you to be pretty specific about what you’relooking for.  

As an example, let’s say I wantedto find: “people in Chicago that asked a question in English aboutsocial media in the past 24 hours”. No problem, here you go. You can subscribe to the RSS feed of the search results as well. There are amazing possibilites for connecting with the right peopleusing Twitter search.

Additional Twitter aggregator and filtering services include:

• Twistori  - A sort of emotional Tweet aggregator: Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Wish. By Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs

• Twist - This service shows aggregated data about what people are saying in Twitter and includes a chart of topical trends in Twitter (similar to Google Trends) that you can also use to view Tweets during different time periods. Mont  You can also do topic comparisons and drill down to see lists of what was hot today or the current week. By Diego Basch

• retweetradar - A tag cloud of Tweeted topics is what stands out with this service, showing current tags, today and yesterday for time intervals. Clicking on the tagged keywords initiates a search on Twitter itself.  The “What’s Happening Right Now” section updates in real time.  The top Retweeted links and Twitter users are also displayed along with a trend archive. By Minnesota’s own Ben Hedrington

• twopular - This service shows trending topics in various time formats: now, past 2 hours, 8 hours, day, week, month, ever. Each trending topic has an arrow indicator indicating direction of trend plus links to the topic on Google and Yahoo News. There’s also an option to do comparison charts from a preset list of trend topics. By Martin Dudek

• Twitturls - Shows popular articles, pictures and videos linked to via Twitter in the past 2 hours, today and also filters out any Tweets that don’t use Twitter vernacular. By Justin Palmer

• Twitlinks - Aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users in a news story format. 

• Retailer Twitter Aggregator - As the name implies, this is a retailer Twitter aggregator showing an ”at a glance” view of  how brick and mortar retailers are using Twitter to connect with their customers including sales information advice. By Tom Sullivan

There are quite a few more, butnone that do anything dramatically different than the services listedabove.  However, there may be some I’ve missed. Are there any unique Twitter aggregation tools that should be added? We’d love to hear about them.