Blogging Redux... two sites worth tracking

Sixteen days ago Darren Rowse, the ProBlogger launched TwiTip and the traffic grew so rapidly that today he is moving it to a more robust server. Twitip.com is all about using Twitter and is worth tracking...

I also want to note "Smart Advi$e.info; Blog Traffic 101-Tips, Strategies On How To Increase Blog Traffic" a site with several cool incentives to promote traffic and comments - not to mention a bunch of great tips and advice from blogger and template design guru, Shri Nagesh.

I promise to be good, and post more often. I am so busy working in social media that lately I have had little time to comment on social media. This includes the redesign and coordination of a sm campaign for Nourishing

Over a million hits in 24 hours

When Britney Spears applies the Twitter concept @therealbritney, launches a new blog, enlists Team Britney as soldiers in a marketing campaign and then, as she tweets it, Womanizer (her latest single) "Jumped from number 96 to number 1 on the billboard charts- and broke some records in the process" ...Ahhh, don't you think it's about time to investigate this Social Media thingy? Oh yeah, and the title to this post refers to the stats at her new Web site: britneyspears.com. That's not the same as her new social media network site: www.circusvip.com and then there's the top secret cover of the Rolling Stone.

Twellow, Twitter's Yellow Pages

Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the Twitter.com micro-blogging service. They analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com.

If you find that you are not in Twellow, but have a valid Twitter account, follow these simple steps to have yourself listed on Twellow:

1. If you haven't already, create an account and fill out your bio information at Twitter.com.
2. Use Twellow's Get Listed form to request the user information from Twitter and have it added to Twellow.

Twellow was launched on June 24, 2008, by the makers of WebProNews...

Finding Twitter's tops...

Thanks to Marifer for the tweet about reading The Essential Guide to Social Media, a free e-book by Brian Solis. He blogs at PR2.0, bub.blicio.us, and is among the original thought-leaders who paved the way for Social Media. Look PR2.0 over closely because there are at least 4 more valuable free e-books there to be downloaded and studied (hint: on the right sidebar at the bottom).

Twitt(url)y is a service that tracks what URLs people are talking about on Twitter and posts the top 100 most popular URLs over the last 24 hours on their home page. The 24 hours are constantly sliding, with an advanced algorithm in place, you always see what people are currently talking about. Today one of the rising stars, Twitter: Ultimate Time Waster or Great Tool?, is a recent presentation by Chris Winfield delivered to an SES Toronto audience that he posted on the 10e20 Blog.

"The best way to learn about Twitter is to have Twitter do my presentation," says Winfield, President and Co-Founder of 10e20 .

He tweeted the following series of questions starting at 4:45 PM EST, with no pre-planning or promotion around it at all:
By 6:04pm EST when he asked the final question he had more 275 answers - a presentation in less than 90 minutes. The 10e20 Blog has all of the answers plus a ton of other valuable ongoing information posted by more than a dozen authors who work at 10e20. It's a gold mine!