2007 Twitter Stats for @echeng
:: Sunday, January 6th, 2008 @ 5:59:44 pm
:: Tags: Computers
Damon Cortesi wrote a cool perl script that sucks down a user’s tweets from 2007 and creates pretty charts via a Numbers.app template on Mac OS X. If you need to, you can use this tutorial that tells you exactly what you need to do to make it work.
My use of twitter has been relatively consistent since I started using it back in March of 2007. For some reason, the script reports activity in January, even though I can’t see any by going “older” via the Twitter webpage. It looks like I also use twitter consistently throughout the week. The “tweets per hour” chart isn’t very useful in my case since my time zone changes on almost a weekly basis.
If you’re interested, you can see my entire chart below the fold.
I can’t figure out the difference between “top @replies” and “top conversational @s.” In my case, they are the same.
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I just found out yesterday that twitter will pump out some (pathetic) stats if you enter the update of stats.
I see on the blog you got it from that it also now has a web version, a google charts version, and a few others I don’t know much about.
With the problems I have been having with it I have been in the support forums almost daily. It seems there are huge amount of international bugs that only recently they started accepting as problems when 100’s of people started complaining about it. But they are all the same problem I have been asking about for ages. No SMS updates received even though we can send them.
Do you get sms updates in all the countries you go to ? if your phone works there i suppose.
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Hi Eric - the difference between the @replies and conversational @’s is that @replies count those people you reply directly to with @’s at the beginning of the tweet. Conversational @’s include instances where you @ somebody in the middle of a tweet, which I do from time-to-time when I’m referring to somebody.
January also exists because I didn’t limit the script to tweets in ‘07, so it’s also dropping your ‘08 tweets at the beginning of the graph. Hopefully I’ll address that at some point in the near future. ;)