Poplinks is an experiment in finding which links are being shared and ranking them based on popularity.
So far only only a handful of topics are being tracked.
If you’re interested in the inception of Poplinks (previously firetweets), you might want to read Firetweets: The making of.
tl;dr : written in python and hosted on Google App Engine.
If you have any request, remark or just want to say hi, email me at hello (at) poplinks (dot) me