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Centerpartiet, one of four parties in the alliance government in Sweden, is the first political party to use Twingly for linking back to blogs. With Twingly they hope to be more open and continue having a good discussion with the blogosphere. The political blogosphere is very active in Sweden and many of the most influential bloggers are active political debaters.

We’ve already given the Swedish bloggers more attention with Twingly Blogstream on many of Sweden’s largest newspapers but with centerpartiet.se as Twingly Partner we hope it can be a new sort of hub for discussions about politics.

Since last year, the party leader for Centerpartiet Maud Olofsson also have her own blog where she publish photos.

Since yesterday Publico.pt, Portugals largest newspaper on the net and the 4th site totally, use Twingly Blogstream to connect to the blogosphere. This means they’re first in Portugal to link back to blog posts that link to their articles.

Our search index contains 370 000 Portuguese blogs.

Publicos own article about Twingly (in Portuguese):
Notícias do PUBLICO.PT com ligação à blogosfera

The daily newspaper Politiken was the first in Denmark to join the Twinglysphere, when they yesterday launched Twingly to link back to bloggers.

-With Twingly we hope that bloggers should add interesting comments to our editorial content, says Michael Arreboe, head of new media at Politiken. It is a part of our long term online strategy.

The reaction from the launch has been very positive in the national blogosphere where we currently index about 55,000 blogs.

Here is a sample of how Twingly look at Politiken (under the article): http://www.politiken.dk/tjek/digitalt/article467920.ece

OMG, we’ve been Techcrunched! Martin met Michael Arrington at the DLD conference this week and now there is a post about Twingly!

The post also contains some new information about the future of Twingly… Except the screenshot (see below) is there also an explanation how we gonna make our blog search engine spam-free!

Can you imagine a spam-free blog search engine? I promise we can, even though it’s quite hard to develop!

The search engine will be different from others, Källström says, in that it will be almost 100% spam free. How are they doing that? Instead of trying to index every blog in existence and then removing spam via black lists and other methods, they are limiting the blogs they monitor to those that are proven to be legitimate. They started with a small list of known blogs, and then spidered out from there based on links to other blogs. The assumption, which is fairly sound, is that good/real blogs will not link to spam blogs. The end result is a white list of real blogs that are indexed - everything else is ignored.

Martins transcription from the panel that discussed Humans Interupting Algorithms at the DLD conference was also published here. Martin, you rule! Links from both Read/WriteWeb and Techcrunch same week.

The biggest daily newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat launched Twingly today to link back to the blogs that link to their articles. In that way they will stimulate the blogosphere to cover their articles even more extensively.

- We look forward to the response from the Finnish blogosphere and hope for an interesting debate, says Lassi Kurkijärvi, Business Development Manager av Helsingin Sanomat Digitala Media. As the biggest newspaper in Finland we get a lot of attention from the bloggers. To develop that relation we now start to link back to the bloggers, and it will be exciting to see the outcome.

Twingly is currently indexing about 35,000 blogs in Finland and has a Finnish version of the ping service at Twingly.com

The most influential blog in Denmark is the political blog Uriasposten according to the Twingly Report we release today of the Danish blogosphere.

Other blogs with great influence are Slagt en hellig ko and Hovedetpaabloggen.dk while the blog from the Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen who with great political influence only has the 45th most influential blog in Denmark.

The report is based on number of links from other Danish bloggers, which is a good way to measure the influence and interest within the blogosphere, and reflects posts from June 1 to August 27, 2007.

The report is published in conjunction with Cision, former Observer, who have formed a partnership with Primelabs to be able to offer analysis of the Danish blogosphere to their customers, in addition to traditional media analysis.

Twingly Report Sweden that is released today shows that the humorous blog Tjuvlyssnat.se is the most linked blog in Sweden. The Report also reveals some previous unknown facts about the blogosphere. The purpose of the Report is to share knowledge and generate interest in the blogosphere. The Report is available at www.primelabs.se/twingly (only in Swedish though), where you also find the data that the Report is based on.

We have analyzed how blogs are linking to each other and what they write about. We have within several categories measured the influence the blogs have and can therefore present the most influential blog in each category. Interesting to see is that current Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt does not only have great influential in political issues in Sweden, but has also the most influential political blog in the Swedish blogosphere.

We have also covered what people are blogging about and it reveals that Swedish bloggers love the spring, life and food, but hates funerals, snow and school.

Blogs have in a short while become an important medium with for instance great influence of the political scene. Up until now there hasn’t been that much knowledge available about the blogosphere. But with our blog search engine Twingly we can basically extract any kind of data from the blogosphere. What would you like to know about your blogosphere?