We Are Hunted Presents the 99 Most Popular Songs on Twitter
We Are Hunted , the Billboard of the social web, has launched a new page to show users the 99 most popular tracks as determined by Twitter users. As music and music video sharing become ever more popular (and supported by third-party services and apps) on Twitter, musicians and music fans have yet another set of metrics to determine virality, popularity, and trending of specific tracks. So, how do the folks at We Are Hunted nail down what’s hot now using only Twitter? Sponsor We Are Hunted’s Nick Crocker told us the new page’s results are determined by “sampling Twitter throughout the day looking for tweets that indicate someone is listening to or playing music and analyzing these tweets in our semantic engine.” In other words, the engine doesn’t track mere mentions of an artist or song, but looks for evidence that the song is getting airtime in earbuds; we can speculate that the engine tracks events such as Blip.fm and Last.fm updates in Twitter streams.
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