Topsy.com – Search for topics based on Twitter popularity
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What is Topsy?
Topsy is a search engine that uses Twitter’s tweets to determine the popularity of a link. This means you can quickly find trends and hot topics across the internet using Topsy. Instead of basing its results off of a much slower determining popularity system such as search engine bots and link popularity. Think of each Twitter user itself as a website. Their popularity helps determine the popularity of topics tweets across the Twittosphere. This is an excellent way to find and discover things on the internet, different from the conventional search engine method.
What you may not know about Topsy
Since Topsy is based on Twitter tweets, you can find newer content faster on the internet. This means you can search results using their time filter (found on the left after a search query) and get newly popular topics within the last hour! Amazing.
Watch this quick video and check it out for yourself:
