TweetPing display

The map itself starts getting brighter based on the geolocation from the public tweets.  Basically the world begins to show as a heat map in real-time which is very cool. Along the bottom you have a few areas:

• Total tweets since you launched the page
• Total words since you launched the page
• Total characters since you launched the page
• last hashtag used globally
• last @mention used globally
• Breakdown by geographic region showing the above same stats
• A constantly changing bar graph for number of tweets as a whole and under each region

If you want a cool living visualization for a display monitor this is it.  Now if TweetPing could allow us to capture a specific hashtag and get the same stats for global and by region this could be useful for campaign tracking and showing off at events to show how something spreads.

FollowerWonk has both a free and pro version.  I went through the tabs to see what I could do as a free user

Searching Twitter bios was helpful.  It allowed me to sort the results by influence, days on Twitter, tweets, following and followers.  I found a few new ones to consider.  In app following is for the pro version only. I was also able to easily see who I was already following or was following me with some simple directional arrows.

Compare users allowed you to enter up to three Twitter names and compare who they follow or who follows them. I picked myself and two others in my field and found we only overlap who we follow by 46 people. Yet they overlap by 122. So I am missing some that maybe I should investigate. The reverse was true and I could see people that only followed the other two and not myself.  Which allows me to reach out to them. I was unable to sort those results by influence to reach specific people first since that is a pro only feature.

I then jumped over to analyze followers (enter any username but you always want your own first right). A cool map overlay showing where my followers say they are based was first.  Almost like a heat map. AA pie chart showing the influence of your followers was quite helpful. The gender pie chart not so much but the breakdown of those following my by range of their followers was great.  Account ages of my followers was interesting. Most active users and even the best times of day that my followers are active was awesome.

Tracking and sorting were not possible except to see the sample data they provided for their own account.

So to summarize, the free plan includes:

• search bios
• compare users
• analyze followers/follows
• overlay your social graph

Pro will include all of the above and even add in:

• In-app follow/following
• Track your social graph
• sort your graph, download results into an Excel
• switch between multiple accounts

 I think this was a helpful site and comparable to the other tools we have listed in Follower Management and Graphing Tools sections.  FollowerWonk is worth checking out for even the free version.

A live shot Nov 30 2pm

Watch in real time as the last one million geotagged tweets are shown on a one million tweet map.  You can view in a cluster with the number of tweets showing or change it over to a heatmap.

In the cluster a blue circle is shown and when a red dot appears inside it a new tweet was found.  The most recent 20 tweets are always being added and then 20 removed.

You can also filter by hashtag or keywords to see a finer view of how the world is talking about a topic.  This would be great to see how something spread during a huge news event or crisis.

Time filtering for the last 5 minutes up to the last 12 hours is also maintained.  I cannot imagine the amount of data they are parsing to apply to this map, but the folks at Maptimize did a cool thing here.

Tame is a tool from Tazaldoo, in Berlin, that will allow you to view your Twitter timeline for important information you may have missed.  They went back five hours in my timeline to build the page. They give a simple overview of what Tame does right here:

It analyzes the last 24 hours of your timeline and crunches it down to a top 10 overview of the most relevant hashtags, tweeps and links.

Once you authenticate via oAuth it begins crunching and analyzing your timeline.  For me it seemed to take a while so after a few minutes I refreshed the page and everything was ready.  I am not sure if it finished at that very moment but I will bet you need to refresh the page manually.

Clicking a hashtag not only gave the tweet but a description of what the heck it possibly means via TagDef.  The hashtags were ranked numerically showing the most used first.  A good way to see what those you are following are talking about. You click the blue down arrow to go to the next tweet for all of these results I found later.

Clicking on a username brought up the most recent tweets from them.  You are able to reply and retweet from the interface so that makes it simple. The person that tweets the most seems to be first.  So be careful here if you follow a talker.  I wish they had a mute button to hide that one.

The far right column is a list of the current link.s  This saves time in scanning all the tweets for that content. It shows the number of time that link was shared (but only if the link is short.  If the link is long they are truncating early enough for you to see the number.

The search bar at the top is powerful and explores all of Twitter.  What I liked was the rankings of results and the help description of how to use the search even better.  I haven’t seen other sites give examples of tuning your searches.  Once again I entered a search term and then had to refresh the page to see the results.  All tests were done on Chrome.

Overall the UI is simple and clean.  you can currently only run one account at a time.  Also you can find your lists and saved searches in the upper right I discovered trying to log out.  There are no ads so I am unsure of long term monetization and strategy.  We hope they stick around and grow this some more.

Tweriod is a free tool that runs an analysis of your followers (1000 for free plan) and gives you the best time to tweet to get maximum exposure.  The last 200 tweets of each person are analyzed for activity.

The report is sent via email link and once viewed you can also click to adjust the times in Buffer for scheduling tweets.  This two step process should get a few more eyes on your tweets.

They do have paid plans that include a monthly subscription and a one time report for only $5 USD.  The maximum amount it can analyze is 5000 users which I presume is due to the API calls necessary.

So get to analyzing and see your best times to tweet!

You have a dashboard, history of reports and a great visual showing page shares per social network. Using the graphs and information you can see which of your pages are the most shared across social networks and influential on your own or any public website.

I an a report against EverythingTwitter to see how we do and it was amazing to see how our most popular places shared is StumbleUpon and Twitter.  The reports can be expanded by clickin on them to get more detailed information.

This is a tool I am adding to my list to run against all my sites.  They have free (with some limitations) and paid accounts.

Once the map builds, you can zoom in and out, click on a name or hashtag and the map recenters and expands again.

Click and hold to drag around the map for larger ones when you are zoomed in.  You can share the MentionMapp with a simple retweet button since you must use oAuth to log in before using the service.

Luckily they do not send out tweets or make you follow them automatically like some services. Clicking the word MentionMapp takes you back to the default entry screen where they build a map about their product name.

• Where do they live?
• Are they married or single?
• What jobs do they do?
• Which hobbies & interests?
• Who else do they follow?
• Their location geographically

As usual, we ran a quick test to let you know how it works.  A quick oAuth approval and all I received was a python script error the first time.  It took off the second time.  In order to see your summary analysis you have to actually tweet the result.  Mine appeared as the following:

My followers like Technology (27.9%), News (16.0%) and Politics (11.9%). #KnowYourFollowers at: http://goo.gl/pjg4A

I was a bit upset I could not uncheck the button to follow their service, even if I was allowing the tweet to go.  I instead viewed the sameple report they did for Starbucks.

As you can see they give some good content that is generated from your followers.  The full analysis breaks all this down even further. (See example here).  They have a huge page on how they crunch and data mine the information.  Keep in mind it is acting as you to run this so you may see and be able to report on people that protect their streams.

PollMyTweets is a neat little service that allows you to send out a request to your followers to participate in a quick poll.  Starting is easy.

Simply log into the site via Twitter.
Tweet using #poll: #poll Do you Like IceCream?
They create a link for followers to vote on.

From there you can see results as people respond.  You can use the service as often as you need.  I am not sure of any embedded ads or promoted items, but I am sure they will come up with something to make some funds.

Sample report courtesy TweetWhen

You simply enter your Twitter username (if you are a protected Twitter stream you will not be able to use the service) and an optional email address.  I checked to see why they ask for the email address optionally and no clue is given.  I presume for a mailing list.

It will then grab your last 1000 tweets to analyze.  Smartly it also says to register for an upcoming webinar while you wait.  Great marketing move.  As for myself I was told that Monday’s at 10am is my best time.  There is a link to tweet that out, of course.