Find out what people are reading
Because people like to twitter links to interesting things they've read, Twitter can be your filtered news portal. A lot of the time, the people you follow will serve up more juicy reading material than you can ingest. But if you want a snapshot of the most popular stories being passed around Twitter, these services can give you insight.
Twitt(url)y (http://twitturly.com) and TweetMeme (http://tweetmeme.com), shown here, both track and rank the URLs flying through the Twittersphere. They show the most popular links and how many times each has appeared in a tweet.
MicroPlaza (http://microplaza.com) not only reveals what people are paying attention to across Twitter, it also can personalize the results, showing you the most talked about links in your Twitter network.
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