Statistics for your Twitter Profile

A lot of users are on Twitter to connect with other people for either expanding their horizons or to increase brand awareness of their firm / product / blog etc. No matter why you're on Twitter, perhaps a bit of ego-stroking or actual knowledge of the statistical metrics generated by your profile might be of use. In this post, we're taking a look at a few sites that provide statistics for a Twitter Profile:

TweetStats.com offers charting and graphs to better let you understand your usage habits. There are charts that'll show you the average number of tweets per day as well as an average weekly analysis showing you the days and times that you normally tweet in.  A detailed timeline showing off the monthly tweeting activity is also charted. Two additional charts that were of particular interest to me were the RT chart which indicated the users whose tweets you re-tweeted most often and of course the friend replies chart which shows you the users you respond to the most. Go here for more – http://tweetstats.com/

Twitalyzer:  I found Twitalyzer to be a little faster than TweetStats. What makes this stand out from other twitter graphing services is it's concepts of what makes for a useful and productive Twitter profile. Twitalyzer analyzes your previous tweets and then describes characteristics such as Influence, Signal, Generosity, Velocity and Clout.

Influence as described in the FAQ is calculated based on:

• Your relative reach in Twitter, measured by the number of followers you have
• Your relative authority, measured by the number of times you are "retweeted"
• Your relative generosity, measured by the number of times you "retweet" others
• Your relative clout, measured by the number of times you are referenced by others
• Your relative velocity, measured by the number of updates you publish over a seven day period

Signal The Signal-To-Noise ratio is a measure of the tendency for people to pass information, as opposed to anecdote, meaning tweets that either retweet or contain a link URL. Basically, it's a measure of apparently useful tweets to the community.

Generosity is quite simply a measure of how often you retweet other users' tweets and spread the word.

Velocity Simply put, it's how often you tweet. This stat is judged against a theoretical maximum of 1,500 updates per week.

Clout is the likelihood that other people will reference you in Twitter, as in "gee that @techtites sure does drive a lot of traffic!" The more people who reference you, the higher your clout.

Twitter Grader

Twitter Grader grades and ranks the Twitter profile of choice based upon a number of factors, as detailed in this post. It also offers an overall grade out of 100 and your ranking based on that grade. It's simple, easy to use and the one reason it brought a smile to my face were the inane updates displayed in the box while the script was attmpting to nail down the calculations.

A final note – All of the above services are open, meaning NO authentication is required. You're free to view the statistics of ANY twitter user who has an unprotected timeline (which is pretty much the vast majority of tweeple out there). Naturally, statistics for more successful twitters with a large number of tweets and followers will take far, far longer to compute – so grab a cuppa if you're planning on seeing stats for @StephenFry, @mashable, @scobleizer et al.