Tweet Analysis with Twitalytic August 24, 2009
Posted by cuyler in Twitter, Web Development.trackback
In the latest episode of the This Week in Google podcast, Lifehacker Gina Trapani discusses Twitalytic, her web server program that archives Twitter posts. It retrieves all the tweets from you, your followers and the followers of your followers storing them in a database on your server.
Besides archiving the tweets, it performs some analysis and shows different views of the data. It performs statistics on replies to your tweets and tracks conversations. It also tells you which followers are the most responsive and which followers share friends with you.
Like Gina, I want to be able to go back and review what I post and when I said it. I didn’t see any obvious way to archive my tweets, so earlier this year I wrote a simple Python program to save my Twitter stream. Gina’s Twitalytic service archives more and incorporates the information into a website. This gives it the potential to become a powerful web communication tool and aid for crowd-sourcing. – Twitalyic
Originally I misspelled “Twitalytic” in the last paragraph, but I only noticed because people were searching for the word “Twitalyic” — so others have trouble spelling strange new words.