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The other day I was whining on Twitter that my Twitter network was getting as big as the web, so I needed a way to filter it. eg. organises sources into groups, a re-tweet tab stream, keyword search tab streams (like monittor), etc…

This has been the same story with blogs, only it’s more full on with Twitter, as people tweet numerous times a day, whereas a blogger may only post once every couple of days.
There have been various solutions to deal with the load of blog content; Techmeme, RSSmeme, Digg, Friendfeed (best of day) to name a few.

Another memetracker is megite, and what I like about this one is that you can limit it to your OPML (My Megite). Basically you get a stream of the most popular stuff from your RSS Reader (or at least it’s ranked from most popular to least.)

I guess the latest player is PostRank where you can filter posts in Google Reader by popularity based on social activity.

Twitter has some noise filters, some are Twitlinks, TweetLists, Tweetburner, and the best TweetMeme as you see conversation clusters (tweets about that link)

Unlike what Megite does for blogs, TweetMeme isn’t limited to your network (Twitter friends).

In comes MicroPlaza (which comes out of beta later today), like the others it only deals with tweets that have links. The ranking is based on the frequency (how many times that link has been tweeted), and also ranked on re-tweets (how many times that tweet has been re-tweeted)

NOTE: you can sort the stream by date or score.

And like TechMeme it shows conversation around these links based on the public timeline.

So it’s kind of like TechMeme (popular links), Digg (re-tweet is like voting), and Friendfeed (conversations around a link)…all in the one package.

At last I can see popular links in my Twitter stream, and all the tweets conversations about that link.

You can also bookmark a tweet. But what’s different here from your Twitter favourites is that you are not bookmarking a tweet, rather you are bookmarking a webpage, and all the tweets that are talking about it…WOW!

This reminds of what TalkDigger attempted in the old days, in bookmarking links that had blog conversation around it…kind of like bookmarking the URL of a Technorati inlink search.

More features

• If you click discuss, it launches to Twitter for a reply…this would be good to do without having to go to Twitter

  Coming soon is a bookmarklet to simultaneously post links to Twitter and MicroPlaza from your browser

• Also coming soon is searching your Twitter network, something sorely needed in Twitter Search. Well it’s not exactly searching the tweets of your whole network, but just the popular tweets with links
• Another cool thing is “being someone”, which lets you pretend you are someone else ie. you get a view of another Twitter users perspective of Twitter.
• Another awesome feature is Tribes where you can make filtered versions of your network. eg make a stream from 5 people in your network.

Feedback

• One thing I want to be able to do is limit the conversation around a link to My friends, and click more to see what people outside my network are saying.

  The FAQ says, “When someone shares a link on Twitter we are able to show everyone else who shared the link as well. We think it’s more interesting to see everyone’s tweet in relation to a link rather than just your network.”

  “When you expand a tile you will see a black box around the picture of the people you follow.”

• What about non-link tweets?

  Tweets that don’t have links in them can be popular and generate a meme.

  I would like to see a stream for tweets that don’t have links, perhaps based on re-tweet and frequency.