Twitter is used today for more than just telling your friends and family what you are doing, or as a conversation tool, it is also being used as a link sharing tool. I’m sure all of you have heard of Delicious and its ubiquity with bookmarking and sharing links on the web, well it seems tweets are slowly being ubiquitous with linking out as well.
In fact, it’s so popular that there’s a whole site that aggregates links and ranks based on the number of retweets it gets. Of course, there is a disadvantage of sharing links on twitter which is that none of these links are ever found again {unless retweeted or bookmarked} and it’s impossibly hard to dig into your update archives to see what you linked to previously. The URL shorteners {is that a word?} don’t help either, as you don’t really know what you’re looking at till you’ve clicked it.
Leaving the shortfalls aside, let’s look at some of the most prolific linkers on Twitter.
These are the people that guarantee to always show you the best of the best on the web, even though sometimes it might be recycled links. We did some digging for you and here are some of our favorites, in no particular order -
The list above is just a beginning, feel free to add yourself in the comments and if we find that you are a link-a-holic we’ll add you to the list.
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Excellent article full of useful tips. 5 stars. Many thax.
Regards Vince http://www.collegeofpublicspeaking.co.uk
New feature not working on my blog – new “my tweets” is invisible. Also: would like the option to TURN IT OFF and not display that part. Please fix.
Joanne, You can turn it off from the custom area over here – http://tweetburn.com/tools/tweetroll-custom/ if you haven’t registered yet, it only takes a minute to do so.
Please add me to the list @iamPariah. I post numerous links related to graphic design, Web design, social media, and general business daily.
Just getting started but I think you’ll see that I have potential, like the Xavier kid who dunked on Lebron… @ twitter: http://tr.im/tOVO and on WP @: http://tr.im/rHO8