socialmedian: Top 5 Twitter Trends to Watch Right Now

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Oct 17, 2009

Summary

We’ve been taking an active analytical look at emerging Twitter related trends on a monthly basis. This month instead of analyzing the state of the Twittersphere on our own, we thought we’d give some of the web’s most experimental, influential, and knowledgeable thought leaders an opportunity to share their perspectives on Twitter trends.

Given that BlogWorld Expo is currently underway in Las Vegas, with the best of the best wandering the halls, we decided to stop a few of the greats — Steve Rubel, Chris Pirillo, Leo Laporte, Brian Solis, and Guy Kawasaki — to get their candid take on the what’s trending in the Twittersphere.

1. Pirillo: Big Bloggers Tweeting More, Blogging Less

Lifecaster, blogger, and über web geek, Chris Pirillo [@chrispirillo] says that more and more bloggers are tweeting instead of blogging. Pirillo believes that Twitter offers pithy bloggers the opportunity to save the “time and energy poured into long-from blog posts, and instead find a way to say the same thing in 140 characters.”