Twitter is a micro-blogging site which revolutionized the social networking world with their 140 letter messages nick named tweets. Twitter, launched in July 2006, has gained immense popularity worldwide and is estimated to have 200 million users, generating 110 million tweets a day. In this vast amount of tweets it is nearly impossible for your tweet to be read by more than a handful of people unless you have an immense following.
Links from external sources can be considered as one of the criterion for the popularity of a website. The more the number of links from external sites, the more popular the website. So how can you determine the popularity of your website or blog?