Twitturly is a service that tracks what URLs people are talking about on Twitter. The site displays the 100 most popular links within the past 24 hours.
Users can use TinyURL, Snipurl (snurl), or link directly to the final URL in their tweets. Each time a link is sent on Twitter, Twitturly takes a note of it. The more times a link is sent, the better it ranks. If it does well enough, it gets promoted to the home page. As the links increase, it gets displayed higher up the home page.
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