PicoBuzz.com - Microblogging Stats

PicoBuzz is a basic application that allows you to see what the key “buzz” words are that are being tweeted on Twitter. The site consists of a chart listing in order the top 20 buzzwords. It lets you know what the word’s last position was and shows you the icons of the users who typed those words which you can scroll over to see what their original tweet was. Currently “eurovision” is in first position, apparently because of some song contest. Indian Jones is in second because of its recent release in movie theaters. In the future, the site will be implementing AJAX so that the page wont have to be refreshed, and there will be more time frames to check out stats for besides today and yesterday’s buzz. They are also planning on adding more stats to the chart and other microblogging platforms to be analyzed besides Twitter.

"picobuzz is a web app that extracts current, buzzlike activity from microblogging networks like Twitter (well, exactly Twitter at the moment). Data is pulled--and statistics are updated--frequently (on the order of minutes)."

Everyone loves Twitter stats, and once there are other microblogging platforms added to their listing and more data to check out, the site will offer information other Twitter apps out there don’t. It’s also fun to check out what the actual tweets were and who said them that incorporate the specific buzzwords, and that’s possible without any effort.

How are they hoping to make a profit from the site besides Google Adsense? When will the other stats be available, because right now there are plenty of other sites that offer similar stats?