Topsy Search Engine & Topsy Retweet Button For Twitter IS Cool
A new search engine called Topsy launched today, and it’s pretty cool. Here’s what it thinks of our free seo guide.
Interestingly it ranks pages by Retweet (ie when somebody likes it they pass it on or retweet it).
I wonder if search engines or Tweet engines like Topsy will usher in a great Twitter Follower Cull on accounts who realise sheer numbers isn’t the game anymore.
If they are using some sort of “influence rank” wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume that somebody that follows a few hundred people and is followed in turn by a thousand or two is more influencial than someone that is followed by 50,000 and in return follows 50,000 (especially if the accounts themselves are low quality).
As with every search engine it seems, it starts with numbers, then some sort of authority needs to be calculated.
LOL What a waste of time if all you’ve done by then is to focus on numbers and forget about the quality of your Twitter followers.
More about Topsy on Techcrunch. It is a pretty good idea and it’ll be interesting to see how this sort of engine develops in 2009. Well gameable at the moment I think!
Note – I wonder why some links seem to be search engine friendly and others are nofollowed…?
Written by Shaun Anderson
Great idea although very easy to manipulate at this time.
Simply Retweeting the same website seems to send sites to the top :/
Thans for the comment Matt. I agree. To be honest, what interested me most is the “influence” score and how that would be calculated. It’ll certainly be interesting to see how this metric develops for us SEO.
a little more work on controlling the tweets and rankings and it could work really well