{"id":907,"date":"2010-02-06T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippeadjiman.com\/blog\/?p=907"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:48:21","slug":"what-are-the-10-most-cited-websites-on-twitter-when-tweeting-about-hot-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippeadjiman.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/06\/what-are-the-10-most-cited-websites-on-twitter-when-tweeting-about-hot-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are The 10 Most Cited Websites On Twitter When Tweeting About Hot Trends?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lately I wrote a post on how to build a relevant real time search engine prototype in few hundreds lines of code<\/a>.  Using a tailored ranking algorithm based on link popularity in twitter,  I showed that the prototype was able to return very relevant answers in response to very hot queries like the ones that can be found in the hourly updated list of google hot trends<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote a small program on top of this prototype to run an experiment: each hour, the program crawl the new list of hot queries from google hot trends, then it runs the prototype on each of those queries and keep the hottest link found in twitter for the corresponding hot query. I wanted to see which websites were mostly cited in those tweets talking about hot trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I let ran the program for a week, collected the  links (more than a thousand), expanded all those into their long URLs version (using an improved version of my java universal URL expander<\/a>),  extracted the domain names and compiled the whole into a top 10 list of the most cited websites. Here it is :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Most Cited Websites When Tweeting About Hot Trends. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was surprised to see some websites that I’ve never heard about before (like wpparty.com or actionnewsblast.com).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To have a better idea for which kind of hot queries\/topics those websites are most cited in twitter, find below, for each of those top website, a sample of 5 google hot trends<\/a> query they covered last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website<\/th>Sample of 5 covered google hot trends of this past week<\/th><\/tr>
www.cnn.com<\/a><\/td>2011 budget<\/a>
ipad tablet<\/a>
cnn.com\/haiti360<\/a>
concorde crash<\/a>
federer murray<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
sports.espn.go.com<\/a><\/td>federer tsonga australian open<\/a>
aaron miles<\/a>
tom brookshier<\/a>
jackson jeffcoat<\/a>
paul pierce<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
wpparty.com<\/a><\/td>jackson jeffcoat<\/a>
leon russell<\/a>
wanamaker mile<\/a>
buffalo exchange<\/a>
recalled toyotas<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
www.huffingtonpost.com<\/a><\/td>governor of virginia<\/a>
obama republican retreat<\/a>
obama gop<\/a>
apple tablet announcement<\/a>
groundhog prediction<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
twitpic.com<\/a><\/td>miss america 2010 winner<\/a>
what celeb do i look like<\/a>
footprints in the sand<\/a>
apple itablet<\/a>
itablet<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
www.youtube.com<\/a><\/td>i pad<\/a>
grammy awards 2010<\/a>
bob kellar<\/a>
lakers celtics<\/a>
ipad a disappointment<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
www.facebook.com<\/a><\/td>general beauregard lee<\/a>
roberta flack<\/a>
action express racing<\/a>
slightly stoopid<\/a>
rolex 24 hours daytona<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
www.actionnewsblast.com<\/a><\/td>codswallop meaning<\/a>
jonathan antin<\/a>
fred baron<\/a>
codswallop definition<\/a>
stevie nicks<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
www.netnewsticker.com<\/a><\/td>arc energy<\/a>
ego ferguson<\/a>
kim burrell<\/a>
reserveamerica<\/a>
ivan mccartney<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
mashable.com<\/a><\/td>national lady gaga day<\/a>
ipad tablet<\/a>
ipad thoughts<\/a>
doppelganger week facebook<\/a>
tebow super bowl ad<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Few remarks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n