NewsWhip – People Powered News http://www.newswhip.com
NewsWhip ranks the world’s most engaging news stories by using social velocity- how fast every story is picking up new shares, tweets and other social engagements. Click into any topic or country and you’ll see the stories being shared and engaged with the most, right now. It’s like news 100% powered by a billion people on Facebook and Twitter.
The site can hone in on particular areas of interest from politics, business and science to sport, gossip and health. The topics trending in each subcategory are often what determine content on daily television bulletins and morning shows as well as traditional news formats such as newspapers.
It can be localised to show what news topics are trending in Australia and is a great barometer of what people are talking about across multi-media formats.