Matt Cutts: New startup someone should do

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by mrduncan • 16 years ago

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adrianwaj2• 16 years ago

You could probably start with a plugin that uses the tweetmeme API - http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/07/api-documentation/ - it'd give you url count, comment count and date created.

-- the other direction you could go in, is start tracking everything a person shares, bookmarks and likes on all their social networks, and aggregate that into a person's public profile. (unfortunately friendfeed doesn't give such info on a url like tweetmeme) From there, use that information for the plugin above, when assessing a url.

Matt_Cutts• 16 years ago

Just using the date alone (along with page views or traffic) would be a pretty good start.

adrianwaj2• 16 years ago

Can also use delicious for further info: http://www.delicious.com/help/api#posts_get -- could also use it to get hashtags for placement into the share snippet

edit: also has an others element, eg: others="55" to obtain number of bookmarks for a given url

ams1• 16 years ago

You get something similar to this with the bit.ly sidebar bookmarklet. When you shorten a URL, it tells you how many clicks there have been on all bit.ly-shortened links for that URL. I always check out this number, and if a link has over a certain amount of clicks, I usually won't tweet.

Matt Cutts: New startup someone should do

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