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March 29, 2011 • 12:55 pm 3

TweetWhen – gauge when to retweet for best results

TweetWhen , from HubSpot, was picked up by @Alanlepo and we had to check it out.  If you ever wondered when your tweets had the biggest impact, this site attempts to show you just that.

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.

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February 22, 2010 • 1:09 pm 0

Twitter Sentiment – track the good and bad on a word or phrase

Twitter Sentiment makes reading the pulse of the Twittersphere a breeze.  Enter any term or word, the default right now is NBC Olympics, and get graphs and recent tweets on the mood about that topic.  You will get a percentage pie chart, a number count and the words used.  Enter your own term and simply click  submit.

Below that a zoomable graph of the last week shows the trend with counts.  You can scroll back and forth in date ranges as well as zoom into a specific date and time range.

The bottom allows you to see tweets with the token words from the top, good and bad words on the topic, with a data range selector.  This is a great tool to use around an product launch and major event to get the feeling of the population.

Anyone trying to see the heartbeat of what they are talking about as a company or conference, this is a great starting point.

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December 24, 2009 • 8:26 am 1

GraphEdge – social analytics into your Twitter network

GraphEdge stayed out of our vision for a while, reasons unknown.  Yet they offer a great service from testing…. as shown in their screenshot here:

There is numerous tools provided with the service including:

  • How many of your followers you’re really reaching
  • How quickly your network is growing (or shrinking!)
  • Who’s dumping you
  • Who your most influential followers are, and how to reach them
  • Who else your followers are following

Now that they have you hooked, it is a paid service only.  Pricing starts at $4.99/month for up to 10k followers and grows to $19.99/month up to 120k followers.  Once you break that limit you need to give them a call for special pricing.

A free trial is available to test the waters, which we greatly appreciate.  This sample report page for Amazon really shows off the strength of the service.  They have an easy cancellation policy defined along with tons of info on policies of the service.  I honestly read the whole page and was impressed they put effort into it unlike many other services we review.

aReTweet Me

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December 22, 2009 • 8:39 am 2

Ad.ly – analytics for your Twitter account

Ad.ly is an ad network for Twitter, but also offers an analytics service, via a partnership with PeopleBrowser, that is quite a nice tool.  It analyzes both your content and audience, all after you log in via oAuth.

Here are some of the features:

  • When you tweet compared to when you get retweeted
  • Map overlay of followers
  • some basic demographics
  • how engaged they are
  • your most influential followers

Now for the pitches.  They have some buttons to get you to advertise in your Twitter stream and also the ability to buy the advanced analyze report for a mere $9.99.  Once again third party developers are monetizing, but not Twitter.

Luckily most of my followers are engaged and have not been identified as bots, abandoned, suspended or following too many people.

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November 18, 2009 • 2:12 pm 1

TweetLevel – see someones importance (authority) on Twitter

TweetLevel is the kind of application we need with Twitter lists forming and the questions now surrounding them.  How reliable, or seen as an authority, is someone?

TweetLevel looks at a few categories about an individual including Influence, Popularity,  Engagement and Trust.  Each is given a ranking score from 1 to 100.  I like the idea of breaking down the different areas someone might be seen by the community.

 

what are the numbers?
Each score is rated out of 100 – in other words, the higher your score, the more important you are. There are four result metrics:

* Influence – what you say is interesting and many people listen to it. This is the primary ranking metric.
* Popularity – how many people follow you
* Engagement – you actively participate within your community
* Trust – people believe what you say

I went ahead and used myself as the test victim, as normal.  You can narrow your calculation using some built in drop-down choices about your job and location.  our avatar, score and rating in each category is then displayed.  No need to log in if you have a public stream.  What I did like it is tells you why get the score assigned.  So as not to spoil the surprise, check yourself out and see what it tells you.  Go ahead, you can trust me (according to them)  :-)

The main page shows the top Twitter users by influence, for a quick snapshot of who you should trust.  Interestingly, I wish they had an autmated script that could make a Twitter list out of this so I could follow the list and always have trusted, recent content.  Humorously Chris Brogan is right next to the new York Times.  Good for him!

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November 18, 2009 • 8:58 am 0

Trendistic – great graphs on Twitter trends

Trendistic, from Flaptor, looks good and works better.  See the trend over 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days and more.  Tweet your chart or even embed it.  it is all there.  You log in via oAuth to interact, if you wish, or just use it anonymously.

It is a tool that allows you to track trends on Twitter, similarly to what Google Trends does for Google searches. It gathers tweets as they are posted, filters redundant ones and compiles the rest into one-hour intervals.

You can enter a single phrase, or separate multiple with commas and see colored graphs on the trends.  Below that you get columns based on search terms with current tweets themselves.  Hot topics for the week can be browsed on the right and wikipedia information is brought in on the topic when available.

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October 28, 2009 • 2:22 pm 0

gtFtr – Get fit with Twitter

gtFtr is a very, very new and rudimentary site.  Yet the graph was pretty cool that is showed.  There is only certain exercises supported right now, but the goal is to track how often and how long you do each one.  Steps, calories and distance can be shown in the graph.  Push-ups,m sit-ups and elliptical are all listed right now.

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October 28, 2009 • 7:54 am 0

TweetPlot – chart colories or actually anything via Twitter

TweetPlot started as a way to track and graph calories while out and about.  But you could use it for anything you want to track numerically and graph when done.  A cool way to do miles ran, miles driven, candy bars eaten, number of times you made yourself an ass that day.  I am sure there are millions of uses.  Here is an example of how many times I said the word MySpace the past 14 days

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September 29, 2009 • 11:00 am 0

TweetStats: Find Out How Much You Tweet and To Who

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In your head, you probably think you talk to much on Twitter. Some of you might feel that you don’t say enough. Well now you can see for yourself with TweetStats, a tweet graph service. Using TweetStats, you can get quick updates on the days you tweet the most, how much you on average per day, month, and even per hour. Stats also include Twitter clients you use the most, who retweets you often, and who you tend to talk to the most.

You can definitely find out a lot about your Twitter habits with TweetStats, which you might find surprising.

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July 7, 2009 • 2:49 pm 0

Twitt3D – follow your friends Twitter feeds in 3D

Twitter is so 2D, so why not move into the new world of 3D?  Twitt3D does just that.  You use the mouse to activate the window after entering your Twitter credentials (not oauth) and then utilize the mouse and arrows to fly around.  The avatars and tweets then start flying in.  I can see if you have thousands of people you follow this could be overwhelming.

After having some issue with Firefox throwing avatars all over, I finally clicked one and got the tweet itself.  Some avatars were bigger (presuming more followers or posts) and others smaller.  I couldn’t use this day to day, but an interesting graphing tool and use of Twitter.

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