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Twitoaster: Threading, Analyzing, & Searching Twitter

2009-05-21T06:00:00Z

With the fragmentation of Twitter mobile and desktop apps resulting in a great volume of tweets no longer coming through the Twitter web interface, sussing out @replies can be tricky. For example, if @MarshallK sends three tweets with links within an hour and receives 20 @replies congratulating him on his content curation skills, how does he know which of the three links generated the best responses?

As with any other question involving Twitter use and measurement, there's an app for that. Not only does that app, one Twitoaster, conveniently thread Twitter conversations; it also generates charts and statistics, sorts hashtags and link details, and delivers tweets in excess of 140 characters.

]]> The product was brought to our attention as a recent solution for gathering @replies to a poll tweet. Here's a screenshot for you:

As you can see, all the replies to this exact tweet are prettily aggregated together in an uninterrupted stream. Brilliant!

Also, users can check out their Twitter stream stats: Which tweets got how many replies, how many users sent how many replies, how many replies were received on each day of the week, which hashtags were present, and what the user's ranking is. It's an @replies-focused power user's navel-gazing heaven:

For the particularly insufferable, Twitoaster also provides badges for blogs and other sites so users can boast about their engagement anywhere on the web.

If only more detail were provided in the analytics department - for example, as a professional blogger it'd be nice to know whether I'm engaging more users in the middle of the day (when decent people should be sleeping) or in the middle of the night (when I'm actually most likely to be awake and alert). So an hour-by-hour breakdown of replies would be great.

The greater the detail, the more opportunities Twitoaster users will have to optimize their engagement metrics.

You can find ReadWriteWeb on Twitter, as well as the entire RWW Team: Marshall Kirkpatrick, Bernard Lunn, Alex Iskold, Sarah Perez, Frederic Lardinois, Rick Turoczy, Sean Ammirati, Lidija Davis, Jolie OâDell, and Phil Glockner.

Comment from venkat on 2009-05-20

2009-05-21T06:22:56Z

yet another twitter app seems to be promising for twitter uses to get aggregated data about their tweets in a statistical manner.

Comment from Brajeshwar on 2009-05-21

2009-05-21T09:46:02Z

Twitter's OAuth? Why ask for credentials?

Comment from Dans on 2009-05-21

2009-05-21T10:53:47Z

gives new hope of a good application heycan yes I think I need time

Comment from Twitoaster on 2009-05-21

2009-05-21T11:27:57Z

Thank you very much for this article!

Twitoaster is still in an early beta stage, improved almost daily. Other statistics and charts will be provided soon (like an hour-by-hour chart).

But the most exciting part will probably be the Twitoaster API. Other Twitter applications and clients will be able to use it in order to get the conversation, background, context and statistics around a tweet or a user.

Arnaud.

Comment from Troy Peterson on 2009-05-21

2009-05-21T15:01:29Z

I wish companies would have the forsight to not build something so reliant on another company.

Twitter is a very important company and a change agent for the industry... but, design something for microblogging and real time discussion... not just for TWITTER!

You can concentrate on twitter... because it obviously has the market share... but, don't put it in the freakin name of your company!!

Comment from Caroline Ramseyer on 2009-05-21

2009-05-21T20:00:34Z

I think this application is very promising. It will definitely help people know where comments, RTs and other Twitter activity is coming from. As Twitter starts exploring pay-to-follow options or opportunities with some types of advertising, applications like this one could help clients and agencies pick communication arteries most sought out and use their social media dollars more effectively as they continue to promote and communicate via Twitter.

Comment from Matt Comer on 2009-05-21

2009-05-21T23:29:13Z

Great app. Very promising, especially for bloggers or companies (thinking to CRM or marketing uses). Thanks for sharing!

Comment from free virtual worlds for kids on 2009-06-04

2009-06-04T17:55:04Z

Useful and convenient tool but not a 'must have'.

Comment from hiphop on 2009-06-27

2009-06-27T22:04:49Z

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Comment from zanc on 2009-11-17

2009-11-17T08:53:07Z

whats engagement metrics somthing to do with reply, anyway I think if you only have to post once to get your post across many social Networks thats cool.