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Top Twitter Tools Map - Following the Conversation

Posted on 17 May 2009 by Marshall

Noticed that some of my posts get “re-tweeted” a lot , maybe 30 or 40 times, in a short period, perhaps in an hour or so - that was the case with my post on Top Twitter Tools tonight. For a while, I have had a RSS Feed set up on @webmetricsguru and can usually find out who’s messaging me or mentioning my handle, even after the fact, so that, yes, I can see every mention that way - But … I’m wondering - who’s actually the most influential - who carries this conversation forward, after I’ve blogged about it. In a few short minutes I found: @ sharondille @ LJMoritz @ ElisaNavarette @ socialmediainfo @ marketingmoron @ socialmediainfo @ Igor_Simanovski @ JamesLDaniels @ tweetlessons @ Mike_Cotton @ tfollowers @ roadmapp @ JBanis @ butch_murray I used Mailana to figure out who might be the most influential - or who of these Twitter friends/followers started the re-treat of my post - so here’s a map of conversations discussing “ top twitter tools ” http://bit.ly/XcpNz It doesn’t appear that any of the people are connected to each other, according to Mailana - but I find that hard to believe. At any rate, by using Mailana, I was able to get a map, pretty much in real time, of who was talking about my post - and had there been more interrelationships shown, perhaps figured out who was starting the re-treat, and I found a post about 4 ReTweet Tools and Trackers by Darron Rowse where he mentions the 4 tools Dan Zarrella was one of the first and has come up with a number of tools including his ReTweet Mapper which among other things allows you to see a ranking of the most ReTweeted people on twitter (arranged by the last hour, day and week). retweet radar - this tool describes itself as ‘Finding trends in the mountains of information ‘retweet’ed on Twitter.’ It puts together a retweet cloud of terms that are being retweeted, ranks most retweeted users of Twitter and ranks the links that are being retweeted.

But … I’m wondering - who’s actually the most influential - who carries this conversation forward, after I’ve blogged about it. In a few short minutes I found:

@sharondille
@LJMoritz
@ElisaNavarette
@socialmediainfo
@marketingmoron
@socialmediainfo
@Igor_Simanovski
@JamesLDaniels
@tweetlessons
@Mike_Cotton
@tfollowers
@roadmapp
@JBanis
@butch_murray

I used Mailana to figure out who might be the most influential - or who of these Twitter friends/followers started the re-treat of my post - so here’s a map of conversations discussing “top twitter tools” http://bit.ly/XcpNz

It doesn’t appear that any of the people are connected to each other, according to Mailana - but I find that hard to believe.

At any rate, by using Mailana, I was able to get a map, pretty much in real time, of who was talking about my post - and had there been more interrelationships shown, perhaps figured out who was starting the re-treat, and I found a post about 4 ReTweet Tools and Trackers by Darron Rowse where he mentions the 4 tools

Dan Zarrella was one of the first and has come up with a number of tools including his ReTweet Mapper which among other things allows you to see a ranking of the most ReTweeted people on twitter (arranged by the last hour, day and week).

retweet radar - this tool describes itself as ‘Finding trends in the mountains of information ‘retweet’ed on Twitter.’ It puts together a retweet cloud of terms that are being retweeted, ranks most retweeted users of Twitter and ranks the links that are being retweeted.

Retweetist - similarly this service ranks the hottest links being retweeted and most retweeted people on Twitter.

Retweetrank - another tool that simply ranks the number of retweets twitter users have (not sure how up to date it is).

However, none to the tools above actually did what I wanted and honestly, what i have in mind is similar to BlogPulse’s Conversation Tracker - but for Twitter - look, maybe it exists, and I just missed it.

My original blog post does show up, but Blogpulse isn’t designed to track for Tweets - that’s the problem, and doesn’t seem to want to pick up shortened urls, either.