If you’re a fan of social media, social bookmarking, and all the other tech tools we seem to rely on these days, then you will probably also have a penchant for analytics tools. Topsy is an interesting one that analyzes your Twitter habits.

The service pulls in your avatar, your bio, and lists your most recent tweets. Nothing exciting there, Twitter does just that when you visit a particular user too. But, something Twitter doesn’t do is to tell you how many times a particular tweet was shared with, or retweeted, by other users. Running down the left side of your tweets on Topsy is the number of retweets for each specific tweet you made and a button for other users to retweet your tweet there and then.

At the time, of writing Topsy tells me I’ve tweeted well over 1600 links and am apparently “Highly Influential”, although relative to whom and in what way I don’t know.

Fundamentally, Topsy is a search engine powered by tweets. Its SERPs (search engine results pages) are ordered according to how often a particular term is mentioned on twitter at any given time. According to the site’s About:

Topsy doesn’t think the Internet is a collection of documents. Or even a web of documents. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream of conversations. Topsy treats people differently from the webpages they create and the things they say. And Topsy sees that people in every community are connected in a web of relationships, where each person influences other people to read, talk and think about things.