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Tuesday May 21st 2013

What’s Popular

Written by chris holt on 24 March 2009

If you are interested in checking out what is being talked about in the blogger world, I suppose you can look at Technorati and Diig etc, or you can also check out icerocket. I found this cool little site the other day from a tweet, but forget who tweeted it…sorry about that. Anyway, it is rather interesting in that you can see what trends are being talked about in over 100 million blogs. So for example I can track the following 5 phrases and or words to see how they compare over the last two months. How many posts are being published about the following?

  1. Non-profits and Twitter,
  2. Barack Obama’s infrastructure plan,
  3. Donald Trump,
  4. Twitter for Dummies, and
  5. AIG.

The results demonstrate that AIG is big news and that Donald Trump is getting more chatter than Barack Obama’s infrastructure plan. Interesting how not many people are talking about Twitter and non-profits…guess that’s not big news.

Trend Terms / Back to search results Posts per day Average % Total posts
Non-profits and Twitter 7.08 0.0008 425
Barack Obama’s infrastructure plan 47.02 0.0053 2,821
Donald Trump 102.92 0.0118 6,175
Twitter for Dummies 7.12 0.0008 427
AIG 979.23 0.1124 58,754


So what’s top of the charts then?

You’ll have to experiment with that yourself, and let me know if you find something that’s tracking at more than 10,000 posts a day.

Here’s another chart that’s kind of funny.

Trend Terms / Back to search results Posts per day Average % Total posts
Tom Cruise 3,672.45 0.4213 220,347
Katie Holmes 1.08 0.0001 65
CSI 422.00 0.0483 25,320
How to Make Money on the Internet 1,638.50 0.1903 98,310
Steve Erikson 1.35 0.0001 81

Tom Cruise does twice as well as how to make money on the internet and his wife does less well than my buddy Steve who is the very popular author of the Malazan Empire series of fantasy novels.

So have fun and be kind out there.




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