Measure Your Twitter Impact
Though the Ashton Kutcher-CNN race to 1 million followers brought a lot of hype to Twitter, your follower number isn’t the only metric you should be looking at to determine how successful you are on the popular social networking site. Check out the following analytics tools that can help you get a better picture of your Twitter activity, from how many people are retweeting your messages to how you stack up against other users.
Follow Cost: This super simple site asks one question: How annoying will it be to follow you on Twitter? Though annoyingness might not be a typical site metric, it does come into play on a social site where people choose to follow or “unfollow” you at will. Once you enter your name, you’ll find out your average tweets per day, what percentage of your tweets are @replies, and what percentage of your tweets are exactly 140 characters.
