10 Twitter Tools To Help You Track And Perform Better
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Analytics: Measuring People, Taking Action
By creating this culture of inquisitiveness about consumers, you start that kind of cultural change where our work becomes less the numbers and flow charts and more and more of what is the best communication plan to reach this consumer when this consumer will be most receptive and pay most attention to it.”
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Good post here about a visionary who sees the future of analytics as more than "charts, numbers" and more as a "mixture of good insights, a strong hypothesis and people to carry it through." The missing piece he stresses here is "research in action."
“Research which is not activated is pretty pointless. And there’s a lot of good research which is done all the time which never gets off the bookshelf, ” says Jim Kite of MediaVest.
Hundreds of Tools to Manage Your Twitter Activity
Twilk - put your friends' faces on your Twitter background
Welcome to Twilk!
Twilk takes your Twitter friends' faces and puts them on your Twitter background.
- Choose between people you follow and/or your followers
- The more you interact with someone, the more prominently they are positioned
- Other options: 2 columns only, black and white
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Make Your Tweetbook
Get your twitter updates, favorites in a fine pdf e-book.
With tweetbook you can generate a pdf e-book of your latest tweets and favorites. Also share the tweetbook with your friends!
To generate your tweetbook, tweetbook.in needs read-only (oAuth) access to your twitter account. Click on the 'Sign in with Twitter' button below to give tweetbook.in the access.
Please logout from the application as soon as you get your tweetbook and let your fellow tweeps also get their's.
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Mr. Tweet -> Discover Relevant Connections
Updated Daily: People You Might Be Interested In
Filtering through the twitterverse to find people your network trusts
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Top 10 Websites to Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts Online for Free
If you have more than one Twitter account, how do you manage them?
Instead of transferring one account to another by login and logout, you are able to mange multiple Twitter accounts in one place with some tools, and among those tools, below are the best 10 websites that let you manage multiple Twitter accounts online for FREE without downloading.
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21 Great Twitter Analytics Tools | TechnoBuzz.net
After the successful twitter Post like 52 cool Twitter Plugins for WordPress, 59 Twitter Mobile Apps, 21 Cool Twitter Greasemonkey Scripts, 27 Popular Twitter Acronyms and 110+ Best Twitter Tools. So today here we give you some details of 21 Great Twitter Analytics Tools, you can check the list below.
1. 24oclocks – You can see your tweets displayed by the hour of the day.
2. GeoTwitterous – Enter a Twitter ID and this tool will display from where the people that particular person is following are in a global map.
3. My Tweet Map – This tool will show you the latest tweets from your friends on a map.
4. Quotably – With Quotably, you can check out any Twitter user’s conversations in a thread conversation style making it easier to follow. Extremely useful.
5. Sitevolume - Just like Alexa, this site will allow to see how many time a particular term has been used on Twitter, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, and Flickr. You can add in multiple terms and see bar graphs comparing the terms.
6. Tweeterboard – An analytics service that provides information about popular Twitter users and popular links.
7. Tweetburner – Tweetburner gives you click stats for the links you posted in Twitter.
8. TwitBuzz – TwitBuzz is a service that follows the links, messages,and users on Twitter and displays them nicely on its site Digg-style.
9. TweetBeep – Just like Google Alerts, this service will send you an alert whenever your set keyword is mentioned on Twitter or when somebody link to your site.
10. a href=”http://www.twitgraph.com/” target=”_blank”>TwitGraph – This service provides graphs of your Twitter usage – tweets by day, top 5 words, top 5 links, and top replies.
11. Twitterlinkr - Shows you the popular links that people are posting in Twitter
More tools here technobuzz.net
Top 50 Twitter Tracking and Analytics Tools
With over 70 Million users on Twitter, it is definitely the “buzz” word of the year. Yet there are people who do not know about tracking and analyzing their stats, influence and success on Twitter. Today there are many social media tracking and analytics tools available that can track your performance on social media sites like twitter. These tools are essentially tweet analyzing software that assists a company/individual with various kind of analysis including sentiment, behavioral and other analysis. Monitoring your tweeting habits and tweet content can helps you get maximum benefit and also will work well for overall improvement. But then if you do a google search for such tools, you will come across many in which some of them can be really annoying and time wasting. So, honeytechblog has compiled Top 50 Twitter Tracking and Analytics Tools that you would need it sometime or other.
TwitterCounter is a great twitter service that offers updated statistics of your followers, following, and daily tweets. You could further compare absolute growth of multiple twitter accounts or also compare them with your competitor’s expansion. Track, measure and redesign your strategy on twitter.
More tools here honeytechblog.com
100 most popular tools
The most popular Twitter apps across all categories.
Showing apps #1 - 20.
Bit.lybit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier. bit.ly can be accessed through our website, bookmarklets and a robust and open API. bit....
TwitPicShare photos on twitter by posting them to a site and tweeting a link to it
TweetieTweetie is a fast, full-featured twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch. It offers everything you'd expect - from your timeline to trends - all with an incredibly polished user interface, fantast...
HootSuiteThe professional Twitter client. Monitor keywords, manage multiple Twitter profiles, schedule tweets, and measure your success. We're in free beta! HootSuite lets you manage your entire Twitter ...
TweetDeckTweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to se...
BrizzlyThing Labs' new browser-based Twitter client allows you to use multiple accounts, monitor searches, share photos, save drafts, interact with Facebook and edit trending topics. It's in public beta, ...
Find more tools here oneforty.com
Top 10 lists of twitter tools
We can find all sorts of lists of twitter tools. I figured the lists I wanted to list had to have something in common, so the list would make some sense.
It has become a list of top-10 lists :
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Top 50 Twitter Tracking and Analytics Tools [via HoneyTech Blog]
49. Tweetburner
It helps you track down the links you share on Twitter
50. Tweetwasters
Check how much time you spend of Twitter
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Web Statistics - What Do You Expect to Get Out of Your Web Analytics Application?
You have probably installed "whatever" web analytics application in order to monitor traffic to your web presence. That was the easy part. In general, installing the JavaScript tracking code is simple (And if you don't think it is, hire someone before you muck up your website. It's not worth the risk.). When was the last time you sat down and asked yourself this basic question: "What am I hoping to get out of this application?". After all you researched things to death. You read article after article. You may have gone to tender... Or even hired a consultant to help you manage your way through things. And you finally fell for the web analytics application of your dreams. Fast forward --- It's installed. The first 30 days are an orgy of data. Kind of like a honeymoon. You can't keep up! Then reality sets in. "What is all this crap? What am I doing? How did I get here?" (I am talking about Analytics now.). [caption id="attachment_503" align="alignnone" width="320" caption="Not Sure Which Way to Go?"]
[/caption] Some free advice..... Only measure information (data) that you feel you or your organization can utilize to to move your business forward and to make positive change. In other words unless you can frame some actions around a particular piece of information, ignore it. This will help you parse out what is unimportant very quickly. And even better, it will help you focus on what is important. You can always come back to a piece of data at a later date - when you have a better feel for a particular item. Or when it is of importance. Keep an open mind and accept that things will indeed change (That is the reality of the fast paced economy we live in.). And so should your objectives with respect to measuring the oodles of data being launched in your direction. What is important today may no longer be important tomorrow. You need to roll with the punches. Keep an open mind. Listen to what your clients are saying. After all, in the end, they are why you are here. Look at business trends. If one was to look at every piece of information spewed out by today's website analytics packages, nothing would get done. You would be buried. And, as anywhere these days, you have a budget to manage. So free time to play with numbers and concepts is at a premium - if non-existent. Now a bit of spade and shovel work! Let's look at a couple of examples of things that can be easily tracked - and even more importantly; things that are actionable: Let's forget about Conversion Rates as a standalone metric. Heresy I know.... But why waste your time on an item that has so many variables? You are better off determining why someone came to your site (support? corporate information? etc..), then asking them if they found what they wanted. So combine the what (traffic) with the why I am here (support, etc...), with the experience (Survey: "Yes I got what I wanted!" versus "No I did not, and your site sucks to boot."). This can be sobering information at times. But really how else will you get actionable metrics? Go into a store these days, and as you are paying for the goods, you are asked: "Did you find everything you were looking for?". Same concept, different location. Take a tech support site for example. You ask a question, the site gives you an answer. And then you get a popup or whatnot asking you if you received a suitable answer. 
The owner of the website correlates this analytics data and takes action with the data that his clients have given him (for free I may add). Of course one can build on this concept with any type of website visit. The aforementioned example just came to mind. Taking the above example we can expand our metrics to just about anywhere we want to go. Take my cycling website. One of my key objectives is generating discussion around cycling. I write about various topics. So a key measurement for me is the discussion that ensues after I write a blog post. The comments I get back drive me to analyze whether or not:
- people really care about what I write about (had to get that out)
- enjoy my articles (that too)
- if I am choosing good topics
Top 50 Twitter Tracking and Analytics Tools
Top 50 Twitter Tracking and Analytics Tools
With over 70 Million users on Twitter, it is definitely the “buzz” word of the year. Yet there are people who do not know about tracking and analyzing their stats, influence and success on Twitter. Today there are many social media tracking and analytics tools available that can track your performance on social media sites like twitter. These tools are essentially tweet analyzing software that assists a company/individual with various kind of analysis including sentiment, behavioral and other analysis. Monitoring your tweeting habits and tweet content can helps you get maximum benefit and also will work well for overall improvement. But then if you do a google search for such tools, you will come across many in which some of them can be really annoying and time wasting. So, honeytechblog has compiled Top 50 Twitter Tracking and Analytics Tools that you would need it sometime or other.
TwitterCounter is a great twitter service that offers updated statistics of your followers, following, and daily tweets. You could further compare absolute growth of multiple twitter accounts or also compare them with your competitor’s expansion. Track, measure and redesign your strategy on twitter.
It is an interesting tool that helps to get all kind of statistic chart about you and your friends behavior at Twitter site. If you love using Google Analytics then this tool is sure to impress you. Some exciting features of Twitter Analyzer are – you can see how followers are online presently, who retweets your messages, what people are writing about you, Twitter following stats, your Tweeting habits and many more
3. Tweetstats
Tweetstats graph down your twitter stats including, tweets per hour, per month, tweet timeline, and reply statistics. Also show you TweetCloud and how many twooshes you have had.
4. Twitalyzer
Twitalyzer is a free tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on dozens of useful measures of success in social media. This powerful tool can help you measure influence, popularity, velocity and generosity of your twitter account.
5. Twitturly
Twitturly tracks the URLs flying around the Twitterverse and provides a quick, real-time view of what people are talking about on Twitter. Each time someone tweets a URL to their followers on Twitter, Twitturly takes note of it and applies it as a vote for that URL. The more votes a URL has in the last 24 hours, the higher it ranks on Twitturly’s Top100. It’s that simple.
6. Tweeps
What do they tweet about? How much do they tweet? How social are they? Do they use hashtags? Share URLs? Tweeps.info answers these questions and more. It analyses the content of Twitter users’ tweets to find interesting statistics about them. These statistics are updated several times a day, to keep the information fresh in the fast-moving world of Twitter. You can use Tweeps.info to help you decide who to follow, who you would like to be following you, or just to discover interesting information about Twitter users.
Twitter Grader is a free tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile. It looks at a variety of factors including the number of followers, power of those followers and the level to which you are engaging the community. It takes just a few seconds to generate your free report
8. Twitscoop
Twitscoop is a real-time visualisation tool which enables users to “Mine the thought stream” provided by Twitter. The algorithm used cuts every English non-spam tweets into pieces (”tags”), and ranks them by how frequently they are used versus normal usage. The web application detects growing trends in real-time, identifies breaking news (earthquakes, plane crashes, political events, new tech products etc.) and monitors specific keywords along with custom graphs that display the activity for any given word on twitter. Twitscoop can essentially be described as your real-time web’s monitor.
9. Tweettronics
Tweettronics is a tool to analysis, discover, track and engage with Twitter conversations about your products, brands, and topics.
10. Monitter
It’s a simple twitter monitor, that let you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying about.
11. TweetBuzzer
Tweet Buzzer lets you see which brands get talked about most on Twitter. You can see and track the top tweeted brands in a 24 hour, 7-day, or 30-day period.
12. spy
Spy is an easy-to-use tool that visualizes the conversations on Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, Blogs and other social networks. This can listen in on the social media conversations you’re interested in. What do you want to listen for? Great for watching Twitter on a big screen.
13. Retweetrank
Retweetrank lets you find rank of any twitter user. With the rank, latest retweets of the user are shown and an RSS feed can also be grabbed for the same. Monitoring retweets can provide a better understanding of audience to the originator while others can see the most interesting tweets of a user.
14. Twittas
Find out when was your first tweet made, find out how fast you are tweeting, evaluate your twitter profile, evaluate your twitter profile, See how long you are on twitter and which celebrities arrived after you, find out with whom you’ve been interacting more and much more under one roof.
15. TwiBuzz
Twibuzz is a tool that let’s you see how often people are using Twitter to tweet your favorite keywords in real time. Try terms like swineflu, or compare two terms like google,apple. TwiBuzz will plot the current and historical tweet rate in tweets per minute (TPM) for your search term(s). TwiBuzz tracks a predefined list of terms, but you’ll find that it’s easy to add to that list. Once a term is added, TwiBuzz will have it’s first TPM data point for that query within a few minutes.
16. Peoplebrowsr
PeopleBrowsr analyzes 1407440 tweets mentioning Hollywood top stars and rates them as positive or negative.
Tweetwhatyouspend is a free tool that makes cash tracking easy! Get a grip on your spending! TWYS answers the question – “what happens to my cash between trips to the ATM?”
18. Twitterholic
Check out the top Twitter users and find out your Twitter stats on Twitterholic. You can locate stats from Top 100 to Top 1000.
19. Twitnest
Twitnest is a neatly designed tool that visualizes twitter’s social graph. You can discover who is following who. Auto-group, automated grouping of users in social graph. Zoom In/Out – mouse wheel Who knows whom? – click on a user to see who’s he/she following.
20. Eventtrack
Eventtrack is tool for tracking people in the moment using Twitter as an interface but extending to multiple other services as well.
21. Socialtoo
SocialToo can help you be a social networking power user. Keep your follower lists in sync across networks, and learn more about your relationships. Send surveys to your followers and more!
22. Repeets
Repeets tracks the hottest Twitter retweets. You can view the most recent hot tweets, the top tweets over the last hour, day, week, and month.
23. Tmtt
tmtt is a twitter application to calculate the time in which a message travels between people. Login with the Twitter account and pass the generated message in your tweets.
24. Emotionstream
emotionstream is a data mining research project that searches for emotion patterns on twitter. The goal behind this project is to develop algorithms to find trends about what is making people happy, laugh or surprise in real time by using twitter data.
25. Klout
Discover how influential you are on Twitter with Klout. See who influences your friends and measure the impact of your content. Klout uses semantic analysis to determine what a person talks about and then measures how influential they are on that topic.
26. Web2express
Web2express Digest uses open semantic and NLP tools to analyze millions of twitter conversations and blogs as they come online each day. It auto-discovers trending topics from fresh web contents and thus allow people to view new web conversations around topics. The same real time web analysis platform enables marketers to efficiently monitor products, brands, companies or competitions in real time.
27. SuiteSpot
Takes live data feeds from Twitter, Flickr, blogs and SMS messages then ‘repurposes’ all of this into an exploratory scene which grows and reacts to the constant stream of incoming content. People can then view this content on either: the SUITE SPOT website, a digital display or a gestural interface in the main foyer.
28. Flackr
Flackr is a realtime news tracker dashboard that carries Twitter news sources, twitpic images and comments. Flackr tracks many different news sources on twitter. Instead of having to follow them all, you just follow Flackr, and we’ll filter out the hot news for you so you can concentrate on what’s important.
29. Xefer
Xefer is great tool that analyses your Twitter and at present data of your tweet volume, concentration in addition to their quality, which is measured by replies.
30. Xpenser
Track time and expenses via Twitter (or email, SMS, IM, call and say your expenses, use the FireFox Plugin, etc). Tag, search, import, export, track mileage, convert currencies, etc. No more forgetting your cash expenses, no more half-day expense entry sessions.
31. Writersdb
Submission tracking app for writers, features Twitter integration. Let your followers know when you’ve sent out a new story (or batch of poems) for publication. The Writer’s Database will keep track of all the markets for your writing, and the status of all the manuscripts you’ve sent out to each market.
32. Cheaptweet
CheapTweet scans Twitter for the best deals, coupons and sales that people are tweeting about. CheapTweet lets users rate deals by saying It’s Cheap (it’s a good deal) or It’s Lame (it’s not a good deal). Deals move to the Cheapest Tweets section if they get enough votes. Spammy behaviors like duplicate tweets are penalized.
33. Twick
Twick’in allows you to cloak, track and share your affiliate links on Twitter.com
Social Media Channels provide an unprecedented way to manage relationships with your customers and prospects. It is one of the first, enterprise grade end-to-end campaign management, analytics and community engagement solution. You will find most of the features of any content authoring and publishing tool like Posting, URL Shortening, tracking, scheduling, multi account management. Also it is the only available application that provides Camapign Management across Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook.
35. Retweetradar
Retweetradar finds out trends in the mountains of information ‘retweet’ed on Twitter.
36. Gracts
Gracts.com is an eco-social experiment. The idea is to get Twitter users to Tweet about their environmentally friendly activities and to encourage their Twitter followers to do the same. Twitter makes use of something called hashtags to group related Tweets together.
37. Archivist
The Archivist – If you have used Twitter search before, you may notice that you can only go back a certain amount of time and/or number of tweets for a given search. The Archivist is a Windows application that runs on your local system and allows you to archive tweets for later data-mining and analysis for a given search.
38. TwitterTopTwenty
This is a top 20 list of everything on twitter including stats, users, and trends.
39. TweetEffect
Find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you. They list all the Twitter updates that had an effect on your follower numbers. Updates that made people leave are displayed in red, others in black.
40. Twitterfriends
With TwitterFriends you can find out the hidden network of Twitter contacts that are really relevant for you. Visualize the network of your relevant contacts and their contacts. See who of your Twitter friends are online this very moment. Read some stats about your Twitter account
41. Tweetag
Tweetag display the most discussed topics in the last 24h in general, or the most talked topics related to a given topic. You can also get a free email alert whenever a keyword appears in Twitter Lists of your choice.
42. Twitteryam
Twitteryam is a service that lets twitters know how much their twitters are worth.
43. Tweet-Rank
With Tweet-Rank you have a chance to learn about the quality of your tweets by knowing which ones won or lost followers.
44. MicroPlaza
MicroPlaza looks at your Twitter network and displays all the links shared by the people you follow with associated tweets. We call these tiles. The tool only looks at public timelines and tweets, not direct messages or protected accounts.
45. Tweetply
Tweetply tracks down popular tweets that with a lot of replies.
46. Iate
Automatically tracks tweets about restaurants. Find out what twitter users are saying about restaurants near you. What are they eating? What local restaurants are popular? Share what you ate.
This tool offers sentiments analysis, based on conversations on Twitter. This web application identifies latest buzzwords, actors, movies, brands, products, etc. (called ‘topics’) and combines them with conversations from Twitter. It does sentiment analysis to determine whether each Twitter update is Thumms up (positive), neutral or Thumms down (negative).
48. TweetPsych
TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets and works best on users who have posted more than 1000 updates. It also works best on accounts that are operated by a single user and use Twitter in a conversational manner, rather than simply a content distribution platform.
49. Tweetburner
It helps you track down the links you share on Twitter
50. Tweetwasters
Check how much time you spend of Twitter
These are the best twitter tracking and analytical tool we came across, and if you have any more interesting and useful tools to share, then we would love to hear from you. You can also follow me on Twitter!
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Virgin Media Using Deep Packet Inspection To Spy On Your Internet Usage For ...
I'm sure they're not the only ones...
via Techdirt by Mike Masnick on 12/1/09
Last year, there were early reports that ISP Virgin Media in the UK would become a copyright cop for the entertainment industry and start kicking file sharers offline if they were accused of infringement. While Virgin later denied this, the company did send letters threatening to kick users offline anyway. And, now, reports are coming out that Virgin Media is starting to use controversial deep packet inspection technology to spy on users to see if they're sharing any copyrighted works. As the article notes: "It's the equivalent of the Royal Mail opening every parcel to see if there's a CD inside, and making a note if there isn't a receipt in there too." While this is just a test, and the information is being aggregated in a supposedly anonymous way just to judge the extent of the problem, there are a bunch of issues with such claims. First, there is no such thing as an anonomyzed dataset. Second, there are some pretty serious privacy questions raised by this. In the US, the use of Deep Packet Inspection for looking at what users do has been frowned upon, but in the UK it's been deemed not so bad by the legal system (however, the wider EU doesn't agree with the UK on this position). No matter how you look at it, it does seem quite extreme for your ISP to carefully look at everything you do online. In the end, of course, this will only serve to drive up the demand for encryption technology.
