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Technorati Launches Twittorati: Top Tweets from Blogosphere

2009-07-31T05:45:02Z

Technorati, the world's first blog search engine, just unveiled Twittorati - a site where the top 100 bloggers' tweets are featured and analyzed. The service allows users to view the links most tweeted as well as displays Technorati's original concept of showcasing the Internet's top trafficked blogs and content from its contributors. One interesting component of the site is the fact that users can view the pictures shared by today's Twitter and blogging elite.

]]> While the community's words may be articulate and cohesive, the world's top rated bloggers prove themselves to be a fairly average bunch of human beings. You'll notice the majority of the photographs feature blurry crowds at networking events, office furniture and gooey plates of food.

With a catchphrase like, "Where the Blogosphere and Twittersphere meet" it will be interesting to see which sphere will hype the service more. Some of the featured bloggerati include ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus, Huffington Post Editor Arianna Huffington and Zen Habits founder Leo Babauta.

Like any good Twitter-related service, Twittorati also has its own Twitter account with a feed to the site's hottest trending topics. We'll be watching closely to see how the site's trend results differ from those displayed on Twitter's newly redesigned landing page.

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2009-08-20T11:15:40Z

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Comment from cell phone on 2009-08-19

2009-08-19T11:28:05Z

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Comment from motorlu perde on 2009-08-16

2009-08-16T10:56:10Z

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Comment from Tyler Hurst on 2009-08-03

2009-08-03T07:03:47Z

So, so lame. Who gives a shit what bloggers tweet about? We like them because they blog well.

Comment from Stephen Wade on 2009-08-01

2009-08-01T17:54:39Z

I'm not sure what advantage this will give me, especially as a marketer. I have rss feeds set up for industry related tweets and its proven very beneficial in filtering out the noise for me

Comment from dvg on 2009-08-01

2009-08-01T15:05:17Z

I have quite a few issues with your reporting here.

Tecnorati is very much and definitely not, "the world's first blog search engine." It may be the last one standing, but it wasn't the "first" by a mile.

Please define "top 100 bloggers". What gives Technorati the right to decide who the top 100 bloggers are? There is no standard for the word "top" on their site and there never has been. They claim to rank sites based on "authority" but their explanation of "authority" -- if you can find it -- is as arbitrary and meaningless as college football preseason rankings. (And note that frequently their lists of "top" bloggers do not even properly coincide with those bloggers' Technorati "authority" values, so their rankings are actually less sensible than college football's BCS rankings.)

It takes a lot of effort nowadays to convince neophytes that "blogs" are not simply "a way to discuss politics". I'd propose that the number of political blogs is vastly, vastly smaller than the number of blogs about cats and dogs, about punk music and restaurants, about relationships and vacations; yet Technorati (and most "big media") attempt to convey to the public that quote-unquote "real" blogs are all about politics or technology, which is plainly ridiculous.

Comment from Benjamin R. on 2009-07-31

2009-08-01T06:58:34Z

Site's got a great design and layout. Bookmarked/Followed!

Comment from arif on 2009-07-31

2009-07-31T17:58:48Z

Another useless service trying to take advantage of Twitter's popularity. What most of these services fail to understand is that they're repeating the popular "tech news" of the day. If you have seen news of the day from one popular website, you have seen all. So why bother going to another service to check the same (people are retweeting the same thing, duh).

Wake me up when people come up with innovative ideas to popularize what needs to be popularize (hidden, critical and important stories).

Comment from tropicalismo360 on 2009-07-31

2009-07-31T16:46:02Z

Great development, but agreed - a natural one.

Comment from Sergey Smolin on 2009-07-31

2009-07-31T15:25:14Z

These days only lazy don't integrate twitter into their site, technorati is all about blogs, so it is normal for it to have a site about microBLOGS :)

Comment from Steven Finch on 2009-07-31

2009-07-31T13:18:15Z

This launched a while ago. Thus, im not really too sure why you are explaining it to everyone now?

Comment from dave on 2009-07-31

2009-07-31T13:11:55Z

I have always seen Technorati as phony, and it is next to impossible to get an answer from their technical support.

Comment from Bijay Rungta (@rungss) on 2009-07-31

2009-07-31T12:34:05Z

Sounds Exciting.

Need to figure out how to make use of it to benefit and rank myself well

@rungss on Twitter

Comment from stor perde on 2009-07-31

2009-07-31T12:08:04Z

stor perde:nice article. helped me a lot Thanks for sharing.

Comment from Jan on 2009-07-31

2009-07-31T10:19:28Z

No offence intended, but as far as I know Twittorati was unveiled on July 7. I don't think that this is "just" ;-)

Comment from Toni on 2009-07-31

2009-07-31T08:11:50Z

good job, Thankd for sharing.

Comment from Malta accountant on 2009-07-31

2009-07-31T08:05:18Z

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Comment from Andreas J on 2009-07-30

2009-07-31T06:25:54Z

Nice design, redundant content of people you already follow. twittersphere.com worked better for me.