Where Everybody Knows The Best Links

There’s been an alarming amount of social networks and social media sites to crop up in the past year that put a million links at your fingertips. Hell, the internet itself will do that. With all these links which are worth the click? It’s getting harder and harder to sort through what should be click and what can be ignored. However, there’s one place I can get links to great content, articles, and stories: Twitter!

Everyday my followers push great links to the forefront of my attention. Yesterday, links and replies concerning the "launch" of FriendFeedFeed, a prank for being an aggregator for all your social aggregators, circulated like wildfire from those I’m following. Later on, news and links of Hulu’s announcement of publicly opening their service began to creep up. I had absolutely no idea what Hulu was nor what it was about. I asked and got great responses and exciting conversations about Hulu! I even got an invite to the service, despite the fact that it was going public today. Afterwards, tweets with links to the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal carried on well into the night. I read articles that gave great blogging tips and provided more news on SXSW audience outbreaks. Seems the Facebook fiasco with Sarah Lacey wasn’t the only embarrassment. Meebo’s panel had it’s problems too.

Even though most of the people I’m following have more interest in Technology than Politics, Twitter followers can give you a daily dose of everything and the links to the best places for more information. So many great links were given to me that I only checked my Google Reader feeds two or three times yesterday and only to add more feeds or share an article. On average, I check my feeds 7-14 times a day.