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1. Internet Librarian International
Watch the Birdie!
A round-up of tools for
using & analysing Twitter
Arthur Weiss
Email: a.weiss@aware.co.uk / Twitter: @awareci
www.marketing-intelligence.co.uk
30 October 2012 1
息 AWARE 2012 Tel: +44 20 8954 9121 Fax: +44 20 8954 2102 Web: www.marketing-intelligence.co.uk
2. Some Twitter Statistics
≒ Over 517m accounts (July 2012)
р Only 27% are active i.e. under 150m
р 75% of tweets are from Twitters own platforms
р Mobile clients represent 61% of all tweets
р Geolocation hardly used (under 1%)
р US User proportion declining (but still largest group)
р Developing world fastest growing (Brazil, Japan,
Indonesia)
≒ Top 5 tweeting cities: Jakarta,Tokyo, London, Sao Paulo, New
York
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5. What are Twitter Tools / Applications
≒ Twitter Clients
≒ Searching Twitter
≒ Finding people to follow
≒ Twitter Analysis
≒ Reputation Management
≒ Curation & Twitter Newspapers
≒ Other
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6. Twitter Clients
What
≒ Tweetdeck (owned by Twitter)
≒ Hootsuite
≒ Twitter for Busy People (t4bp.com)
≒ Account management (e.g. ManageFlitter)
≒ Several others.
≒ Browser Plugins e.g. SilverBird
≒ Mobile clients e.g. Tweetcaster (Android)
Why
≒ View all activity in single window e.g. hootsuite, tweetdeck
≒ Can clear viewed activity
≒ Can categorise or segment tweets e.g. by person t4bp
≒ Can include as toolbar or without having to login to the twitter site
≒ Manage multiple Twitter accounts or time post tweets, etc.
≒ Available as standalone software
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7. Hootsuite
Easy to customise so get feeds for specific lists, mentions, etc.
Allows scheduling of tweets, analytics & more.
Also can add other social media LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
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8. Tweetdeck
≒ Standalone
downloadable
client software (on
multiple platforms)
≒ Can clear read
items so only see
new tweets, etc.
≒ Other
downloadable
software include
≒ DestroyTwitter,
≒ Twitbin.
≒ Some software specific for macs (e.g. Hibari) or designed for mobiles &
tablets (e.g. echofon for iphone, tweetcaster for android)
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9. Twitter for Busy People (t4bp.com)
Several features:
view your own friends unseen tweets
view the last tweet from each friend
view the last tweets from another twitter user
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10. ManageFlitter
Manage / Profile Followers and Followed
Time / Schedule Tweets
Analysis of changes over time e.g. interactions
Prices range from free to $189 per month
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11. Searching Twitter
≒ Twitter search only goes back around 10 days
≒ Topsy.com currently the best free Twitter search
option
≒ DataSift & Gnip allow for (paid) Twitter search
analysis
≒ A few other options for searching specific users
р SnapBird
р AllmyTweets
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15. Finding People To Follow
Who to follow find people to follow
≒ Listorious.com
≒ WeFollow.com
≒ Twellow.com
Who follows me (or stopped following
me)
≒ Tweepi.com Analyse followers
≒ FriendorFollow.com who is or isnt
following me
≒ Fllwrs.com tracks changes in
followers
≒ Qwitter.com track unfollowers
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16. Twitter Analysis & Stats
≒ How often are they tweeting?
≒ When are they tweeting? And where?
≒ How many retweets & mentions?
≒ How many views?
≒ What is their profile?
≒ Who do they share in common?
≒ Whats trending?
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24. Others
Twitter Chats e.g. Tweetchat.com
Links to other social networks e.g. blog posts
≒ Twitterfeed.com
Twitter Filters
≒ Slipstream.com hides selected types of tweet e.g. based on hashtags
URL Shorteners (t.co, bit.ly, ow.ly, etc.)
Schedule tweets so released on set date or time
≒ Twuffer.com, Tweriod.com, Futuretweets.com and a number more
Twitter games
≒ e.g. artwiculate.com (word-game), 140blood.com (multiplayer fantasy games)
Apps directory for twitter Twittereye.com
Hard-to-categorise / other
≒ SocialCollider.net revealing graphically cross-connections between
conversations on Twitter
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