Forget Bing, Topsy Rules Them All

If you have been paying attention to the news in the search engine industry, you know Bing, Google, and Yahoo-Microsoft partnership are the talk of town. But what people need to be talking about is Topsy. Topsy is a search engine based on tweets that lets you find out what people are talking about on Twitter, who’s tweeting what, and who are the influential players in any niche. Twitter is still growing fast, and a lot of people are jumping on the ship, making the community stronger than before. It’s true that Google has almost too many pages in its index, but tweets are easier to create than web pages, and that’s why Topsy comes in handy.

You only need 140 characters to create a tweet, so millions of tweets can be sent back and forth on a daily basis. That means there is a lot of data out there, which Google and other modern search engines can’t keep track of for now. That’s where Topsy comes in. Tospy keeps track of top tweets across the board and lets you know which ones are more popular than others. It also shows you who has tweeted and retweeted what stories, and how influential each twitterer is.

So as you can see in the above picture, you can find out who’s been talking about your keyword over the past few weeks, month, or the past hour. Next to each story, you are going to see the number of times people have tweeted about that specific story. Another feature that makes Topsy so exciting is the ability to find out more information about each twitterer. You can not only use Topsy to find new people to follow, but you can also retweet stories easily and same time in the process.

Finding more about influential twitterers makes it easy to figure out what these folks are doing right, and how you can achieve similar results on Twitter. You can also connect with these folks and expand your Twitter network dramatically. And if that’s not enough, Topsy shows you the other top stories by source. So if you are looking for the top tweets about CNN stories, you can easily find them on Topsy.

As you can see, Topsy provides you with a whole lot of information that you can use to take your game to the next level. Twitter is a fast growing community, and a lot of people are already using Twitter to get their news, communicate with each other, teach and learn new things. With Topsy, you spend more time doing and less time searching and wasting time. Bing may have the spotlight for now, but I’ll stick with Topsy.