Advertising Age teamed up with social-media trend-analytics service What the Trend to create the weekly Top 10 Most Tweeted Brands list.
How does it work? From the Notes section at the bottom of the AdAge.com post:
We broadly define "brands" to include major marketers (e.g., Apple) and branded products (e.g., iPad), as well as celebrity and entertainment brands (e.g., Lady Gaga, American Idol). Ad Age works with WTT to consolidate multiple threads of brand chatter (e.g., Apple, iPad, iTampon, Apple Tablet) into one position on the chart when it's clear that related Twitter conversations are basically all about the same topic, even if they use different keywords.
This week's top 10:
1: Oscars (including Sandra Bullock, Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker, Avatar, James Cameron, Academy Awards, Kathy Ireland, Red Carpet, Precious, Crazy Heart, Tyler Perry, Best Picture, Jeff Bridges, District 9, Molly Ringwald, Zac Efron, SJP, Best Supporting, Food Inc., Robert Downey Jr., Kristen Stewart, Farrah Fawcett, Monique, Best Director, George Clooney, Fisher Stevens, Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Barbara Walters, ABC, Sandy Powell, Tom Ford, Christoph Waltz, Best Documentary, Sarah Jessica Parker, Colin Firth, Penelope Cruz, Tina Fey, Tom Hanks, An Education, Matt Damon, James Taylor, Hattie McDaniel, Chris Pine, Cablevision, NPH, Ryan Bingham, Steve Martin, Congrats Monique, Frog, Sigourney Weaver, Miley's, Best Animated, Anna Kendrick, Art Direction)
2: Justin Bieber (including My World 2, #weadorejustin, #BieberHasMyHeart, QVC, #KingstonFollows, #bieberismyidol, #ripmary, #InLoveWithBieber, Big News, AXns5tC-dgk, Eenie Meenie, #Biebershirtless, RICK, BBC1, Cmon, Let's Dance, #OMJDByeah, #omgbiebertrue, NcvLuIHIo10)
3: Alice in Wonderland (including Alice)
4: Notorious B.I.G. (including #ripbig, Biggie, Name Ya Top 5 Biggie, Happy BIG Day, Juicy, Christopher Wallace, #Biggie)
5: Lady Gaga (including Telephone, Beyoncé, #telephonevideo, GQ95z6ywcBY, #TelephoneThursday, Jonathan Ross, GaGa)
6: Jonas Brothers (including #JonasAreBack, #JoeEatsFood, #YoureANileyFan, #itsagreysweater, Houston, #NickJonasDay, #WelcomeKevinJ, Everybody)
7: Chuck Norris (including #iheardchucknorris, #chucknorris)
8: Corey Haim (including Actor Corey Haim, Lost Boys, RIP Corey Haim, #RIPCoreyHaim, LAPD, Goonies, North Hollywood, Corey Haim, KNBC, Frank Albarren, Lucas)
9: #WeAdoreDemi
10: NBA (including Kobe, Lakers, Ron Artest, Rodney Stuckey, Matt Barnes, Raptors, Chris Bosh) By David Cohen
The Internet-based Twitter interface now offers updated followers and following lists in contacts, adjustable column sizes, sound notifications, the ability to mute and unmute users, location trends, and inline pictures and video previews.
Seesmic detailed the tweaks in a post on the Seesmic Blog:
Manage your followers and who you follow in our recently released Contacts feature. Be able to look through and view all of your relationships on Twitter by reviewing their profile, add them to lists, and easily manage your connections.
By allowing much narrower columns, Seesmic Web will surely become the best friend of your Netbook! Wanted to view more columns simultaneously and they seemed too large? Go to the left side of the screen and choose the width: small or wider!
Missed important tweets because you did not check them in time? Seesmic Web now announces when you've received Direct Messages, Replies, or you've even sent tweets. Sounds are enabled by default and can be disabled by clicking on the second button of the top right bar.
Ever wanted to hide someone from your Seesmic Web timeline when the tweets might have spoiled your surprise? You can do it now with the Mute feature! Clicking on the user name opens the profile preview, and opting for Mute will exclude all of the user's tweets only from your Seesmic Web platform. If you changed your mind, you can simply undo the process from Contacts.
Seesmic Web now lets you preview pictures and thumbnails of video directly from the timeline, without clicking on anything. It has never been easier to know what's behind all of those shortened links! In Seesmic Web, you can adjust sound, replay, or pause the video.
Do you want to know what's setting trends in certain parts of the world or must-go-to cities? Seesmic Web now allows you the possibility to do it, whether in Europe, the United States or, simply, Worldwide. By going to Trending Topics Location, you can select the city of your choice or region that catches your eye and view the most-talked-about subject.
Crowd Status Crowd Status- View the status of your friends on Twitter in a start-up page style.
Bkkeepr Bkkeepr – With this service, you can track the books you are reading on Twitter.
CommuterFeed CommuterFeed– You can share your traffic report on Commuterfeed using Twitter.
Foamee Foamee – This is a fun site that allows you to track people who owes you beer or coffee using your Twitter account.
FoodFeed FoodFeed – is a micro blogging site that you can use to post about your food habits through Twitter.
InnerTwitter InnerTwitter– Meditate by receiving chimes at regular intervals from InnerTwitter.
Notches Notches – Allows you to write reviews of certain items on Twitter.
Hahlo Hahlo – if you are not satisfied with your Twitter interface, you can check out Hahlo to manage your Twitter account. It gives you a separate profile page and the rest of the Twitter features in a new look.
My Tweeple My Tweeple – Manage your friends and followers in Twitter on a single web page.
Post Like a Pirate Post Like a Pirate – This tool allow you to convert your post into pirate-speak before posting it to Twitter. I, however, don’t need it, because I already speak like a pirate. Yarr!
Quitter Quitter will help you how to use Twitter to quit smoking. Bonus points for cool name.
Roll The Dice Roll the dice – You can use this service to do all the silly things on Twitter like roll a dice, flip a coin, deal cards, or generate a random number.
StrawPoll Straw Poll – Sends out polls on Twitter that you can participate on. As they say, you can never have too many polls.
TrackThis Track This – This is an useful service to get updates of your shipment using Twitter. It supports FedEx, UPS, USPS and DHL tracking codes.
Twee60 Twee60 – You can tweet your Xbox live status with Twee60 automatically.
TwitResponse TwitResponse – Set up your Twitter posts for the future.
TwittEarth TwitEarth – This is a 3D model of the earth displaying the latest updates on Twitter across the globe. You can download the tool as a screensaver.
Twitterfeed – Posts your blog posts automatically to Twitter.
TwitterMeThis TwitterMeThis– When you follow TwitterMeThis, it will send you a question randomly. If you are the first to answer that question, then you get $5.
TwitterSpy TwitterSpy provides you a Google map on its site. when you hover your mouse above certain locations on that map, you get to see the latest public posts from that area. Strangely addicting.
Tweetclouds Tweetclouds – Create a word cloud from a public Twitter stream using this service.
Tweetgift – Remember Facebook where you can poke, throw a sheep, or hug a friend? Tweetgift enables you to do the same on Twitter.
Twaction – Another service that lets you do Facebook-style pokes and slaps at friends.
Twistori – Based on Summize, this service collects Twitter messages with words such as love, hate, think, believe, wish, and feel and displays them on its site with automatic updates.
Twitpoll Twitpoll– You can participate on polls using Twitter through Twitpoll.
Tweetshots Tweetshots– this service allows you to take your Twitter posts to Tumblr, embed in websites, or send over email.
TwitterAnswers TwitterAnswers combines Twitter and Mosio, so that you can send questions over Twitter and have them answered by other people.
Twitter Karma Twitter Karma – This tool fetches your Twitter friends and followers and displays them for you, letting you paginate through them in a nicer way than you would on Twitter.
TwitterNotes TwitterNotes – You can create notes on TwitterNotes using Twitter and tagging your notes.
TwitterPoster TwitterPoster– This site generates a mosaic of user icons of those with a large number of followers on Twitter.
TwitterSnooze TwitterSnooze– If you have friends on Twitter who are updating every 10 seconds and are irritating the hell out of you, you can simply now snooze them away using this tool.
TwitterSpectrum TwitterSpectrum– Based on Summize, this tool show you the associated words of two pair of words or names in a nice spectrum layout.
Xpenser Xpenser– Record your expenses using Twitter. You can also use other mediums like email, SMS, IM, voice, etc.
Who Should I follow Who Should I follow – Find interesting people to follow on Twitter using this tool.
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