The words Digg , Key hddvd and DVD are among most popular on Twitter during the news breaking of the HD-DVD Hex key crack and related articles being withdrawn and blocked from Digg. The articles and key numbers have since been restored to Digg in only what is an assumed attempt at re-gaining the loyalty of it's democratic readership.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Here is a picture from the Twitterverse site, which tracks popular words on Twitter.

btw.  found some other interesting scandals within this news.  One was a video of 3 US service men getting...

Have you ever wondered what people are twittering on about on Twitter? Well now you can find out with Twitterment. Twitterment is a mashup using Twitter, JfreeChart (graphs) and Lucene (Search) open source libraries to be able to search and analyze what terms people are twittering about. It is really cool actually and seems to work great. It was a little slow when we tried it but maybe it was just under load at the time.

There is also a compare function where you can compare the stats for two terms.

Twitterment is hosted on UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County)...

For now a picture says a thousand words. Hint. Traffic is by far, NOT the only measure for the usefulness and application of twitter nor for predicting its future...