Trendistic - see trends in twitter. The Pulse of Social Life - Live tweets. How journalists are using metrics to track the success of tweets. When I first started on the BeatBlogging.org project almost three years ago, very few journalists and news organizations were using social media. In fact, you were considered kind of strange if you used social media. Now, it’s strange if a news organization or a journalist doesn’t use it. The debate has moved from, “should we use social media?” To “how do we get the most out of social media sites such as Twitter?”
This question is leading people and organizations to try to figure out what kind of tweets garner the most traction and why. Services such as bit.ly, Chartbeat, Radian6, etc. allow journalists and news organizations to track how many people click on their tweets and see what’s getting retweeted, and many journalists are using them to track their tweets’ effectiveness and reach. New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen uses a custom URL shorter for his links — jr.ly — to shorten his links and track how they do. Twitter Dots - Beautiful map rendering of realtime Twitter tweets. Replyz. PollDaddy Twitter Polls - Send a poll directly to your Twitter stream! Yfrog - Share your images/videos on Twitter!
See what journalists are saying on Twitter with JournalistTweets. Small, useful tools for Twitter. Twitter search. Twitter community.