BBC Zeitgeist: All the news fit to tweet, powered by Ruby, Sinatra, RabbitMQ

BBC Research & Development has released Zeitgeist, a directory of the most shared BBC links on Twitter.

Tweets and stories are indexed by topic and location and can be filtered by time period to include only the last 24 hours or 7 days.

Perhaps even more valuable than the news to the web development geek, is the well documented source:

Zeitgeist is a Sinatra app that consumes the Twitter Gardenhose and Track APIs using workers in a RabbitMQ queue.