Zeitgeist - the most shared ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ links on Twitter
is a prototype developed by our colleagues in ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Research and Development.
It's aim:
...to highlight the most shared ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ webpages on Twitter, a digest to link people to the hottest ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ pages
On the R&D blog Theo Jones explains more:
We use the Twitter streaming API to access the Gardenhose sample stream, which provides a subset of the full Twitter message stream, at a rate of about 100 messages per second and to track "³ÉÈËÂÛ̳" as a keyword. These messages are then fed into a pipeline of processes written in connected by queues provided by , a fast and reliable messaging server.
Read more and comment at the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Research and Development blog.
Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Online