Social Media and Technology Blog Boston by SchneiderMike » twitturly http://www.schneidermike.com a blog about technology and analysis Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:53:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Twitturly is Important. How to Make it Mission Critical. http://www.schneidermike.com/beyondclassification/twitturly-is-important-how-to-make-it-mission-critical/17/ http://www.schneidermike.com/beyondclassification/twitturly-is-important-how-to-make-it-mission-critical/17/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 18:59:10 +0000 schneidermike http://www.themichaelschneider.com/?p=17 If you have not been to Twitturly.com, you are missing out on the second most most important Twitter resource. The twitter search tool Summize is number one.

Joel Strellner has thoughtfully created a tool that gives us insight into the most popular URLs from the past 24 hours. Each time someone types in a link, Twitturly thoughtfully counts it as a vote for that URL. The best part is that it doesn’t matter if you’re using a tinyurl, is.gd or one of those other tools that help reduce the size of URLs (to rickroll your friends). Twitturly follows the URL to its destination.

The user can drill down into the URLs and see the actual tweets and tweetersmaking it an incredibly important buzz measurement resource.

What does it need?

It is really useful now, but I have a few ideas for how I would take Twitturly to the next level.

  • Larger “windows” or a user controlled timeline ala Google Analytics.
  • URL trend lines
  • Aggregation of URLs by individuals or groups of individuals.
  • Drill up: Aggregation of URLs by site, drill down to specific URLs

Windows of Time

This allows users to specify a larger window of time than 24 hours. It allows them to track what has been popular for a given time period. I would like to see tabs that say 24hours (the default), 1 week, 1 month and 1 year. If the system can handle it, ideally we would be able to choose a time frame between A and date B and be given the list.

URL trendline

Building on the Windows of Time idea, a user would be able to see a graph of the popularity of a URL within that time window. It would also be cool if they could add more than one URL to the graph, ala trendrr. One could argue that you can do this via compete.com, but that is only for URL home pages. This would allow us to compare specific URL and their popularity on Twitter.

Aggregation by Popular People

What are the most talkative people in twitter talking about? I would like to see the URLs from

  • The 10 top most popular by followers.
  • The top 10 people who follow the most people.
  • The top 10 people with the most tweets.
  • The top top people who receive the most @s.
  • The most popular URLs by everyone that I am following.

URL Drill Up

This would be a drill-up to the home page. It would scrape everything off of the URL after the first slash. This tells us how popular places Youtube, Google, Digital Before Digital and Yahoo are in aggregate and then we can drill down and see what the most popular articles/stories/features are.

What would you add to Twitturly?

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