Resources. Web Metrics Dashboard. 8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams. Twitter is now the third most popular social network, behind Facebook and MySpace (Compete, 2009).
A year ago, it has over a million users and 200,000 active monthly users sending over 3 million updates per day (TechCrunch, 2008). Those figures have almost certainly increased since then. With the torrential streams of Twitter updates (or tweets), there's an emerging demand to sieve signals from noises and harvest useful information. Enter Twitter Analytics, Twitter Analysis, or simply just Analytwits (in the tradition of Twitter slang).
These analytics tools are growing in numbers; even Twitter is developing them. The Twitalyzer for Tracking Influence and Measuring Success in T. Twitalyzer's Data Use and Privacy Policy Twitalyzer makes use of publicly available data in all cases, regardless of source.
We rely on public Twitter streams, publicly available data from Klout, PeerIndex, and Rapleaf, and reserve the right to add other data from the public domain from time to time. We do not use direct messages or any other type of private information in any of our processing or reporting.