Live Twitter URLs
Friday, April 4 2008
I find Twitter's public timeline fascinating — it's like a group stream of consciousness. Despite all the inane comments, it's amazing to watch live news break and see popular items on the net propagate from user to user.
This is just a quick project I spent an hour or two on the other night that monitors Twitter's public timeline and extracts all of the URLs that people link to. I did a cursory Google search for similar projects and found a few — but none of them resolved the real URL. Listing shortened URLs is worthless — I want to see where the links really point to.
That's what this service does. It follows the link to its endpoint. You can view the full river of links as they come in, or you can view the most popular links for a given timeframe.
Please send any comments my way. Enjoy.
Update: A user was kind enough to email me a link to TwitterLinkr — it does exactly what I'm doing, but, you know, better :-) Oh well.
Another Update: A Twitter user just twittered a link to this post — which then appeared in the recent links RSS feed below. I think my head is going to explode.
Twitter Data
- 100 Most Recent URLs
- 25 Most Popular URLs
