Technorati Launches Twittorati: Top Tweets from Blogosphere

Written by Dana Oshiro / July 30, 2009 10:45 PM / 18 Comments

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

Posted by: Andreas J | July 30, 2009 11:25 PM

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Posted by: Toni | July 31, 2009 1:11 AM

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

Posted by: Jan | July 31, 2009 3:19 AM

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Posted by: stor perde | July 31, 2009 5:08 AM

Sounds Exciting.

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

@rungss on Twitter

Posted by: Bijay Rungta (@rungss) | July 31, 2009 5:34 AM

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

Posted by: dave | July 31, 2009 6:11 AM

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

Posted by: Steven Finch | July 31, 2009 6:18 AM

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 :)

Posted by: Sergey Smolin | July 31, 2009 8:25 AM

Great development, but agreed - a natural one.

Posted by: tropicalismo360 | July 31, 2009 9:46 AM

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).

Posted by: arif | July 31, 2009 10:58 AM

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

Posted by: Benjamin R. | July 31, 2009 11:58 PM

I have quite a few issues with your reporting here.
1. 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.
2. 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.)
3. 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.
Posted by: dvg | August 1, 2009 8:05 AM

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

Posted by: Stephen Wade | August 1, 2009 10:54 AM

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

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