Tweetworthy Firefox Extensions
BackType recently released a cool Twitter link search-engine, BackTweet. Since every tweet use a different short-url service BackTweet lets you search based on the final URLs instead of only short-urls. Now I can see when people tweet about my site, which wasn't easy to search for before.
Get your scrapers ready!
Since BackTweet doesn't seem to have a JSON api, and I really wanted to see what Firefox extensions are most tweeted, I wrote screen scrapping code that creates a report for tweets over the last 3 days (max of 500 results for addons.mozilla.org search). No surprise that Twitter extensions are popular. (ruby code to generate report)
Extensions with 3+ tweets
- Power Twitter 104
- TwitterFox 43
- TwitterBar 40
- TinyUrl Creator 10
- KallOut - Accelerators for Firefox 9
- Shareaholic 9
- IE Tab 8
- Duck Duck Go Toolbar 7
- EditPrefs 6
- Greasemonkey 6
- Tab Mix Plus 6
- LeechBlock 5
- Twitbin 5
- Adblock Plus 4
- FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader 4
- Firebug 4
- Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer 4
- Glue 4
- LongURL Mobile Expander 4
- MySocial 24x7 Bar 4
- ReloadEvery 4
- Twitter Search 4
- JSONView 3
- MeasureIt 3
- UrlbarExt 3
- Video DownloadHelper 3
- Web Developer 3
- is.gd Creator 3
