I have written about the importance of understanding who you are talking to, and I believe that understanding who you are talking to is especially important in social media. To me, it seems that a lot of people don’t have control of who are reading their messages and how to reach out to the most influential people.
It’s fairly easy to find out a few important things about your followers on Twitter. And, you should know that there are many tools you can use to analyze and optimize Twitter for social growth.
Let me show you a few things you can do, and it will take you just a few minutes.
I’m using Followerwonk, but like I said, you can use many similar tools to get the same data.
Map of where your followers live
I really enjoy looking at the map to see where in the world my followers are. Just by looking at the map, I get some interesting ideas of what I should be writing about.
I can click on each country to see more details about the followers. I can find out the cities they live, if that’s interesting to me. I can discover all sorts of geographical data.
The most influential followers
I have been reading all the books by Seth Godin, and one of the type of people I have been looking for is what he has called Sneezers. That’s the people who are the most influential and the people who can reach more people than all the other people, with just a single tweet. Look at it like this, if you can reach out and create a relationship with the most influential followers, you’re many steps closer to success.
According to Robin Dunbar, we can only have ever have 150 friends at most. With Followerwonk, I can easily track my 150 most important followers when it comes to their influence on Twitter.
Total tweets
I understand that in order to find out who’s a “perfect” match with me on Twitter, and who’s just using Twitter as a research tool, or are not “real” users, because they are either not publishing any tweets or they are publishing too many tweets (spammers), I need to take a closer look at their total tweets.
This way I can unfollow the people who are never publishing any tweets, and I can unfollow the spammers, and keep the people who are active.
The most active hours
I schedule many of my tweets, because I just can’t seem to tweet when I should in order to get the most attention. I have discovered when I should be tweeting by analyzing the twitter activity by hour of the day for my followers.
This is how I understand that 5 pm is when I should be the most active.
Twitter: lisapatb
There are many ways Jens I like to track – Commun.it, (SocialBro before they charged), Klout, Tweriod and an old fashion who is talking to me on the Twitter stream
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Twitter: leticiapolese
Hi Lisa!
The desktop versions of SocialBro (for Chrome and Adobe Air) remain free as always. The paid version is the web-app
Best,
Leticia
Twitter: berget
I still haven’t tried SocialBro, maybe it’s time Leticia?
Twitter: berget
You’ve got some interesting tools too Lisa. I haven’t used SocialBro or Commun.it, and even though I believe I have tested Tweriod, it has to be a while ago, because I can’t remember what I used it for (even though I sort of understand what it’s about just by looking at the name).
Twitter: craigmcbreen
Jens, I have enough tracking tools already, now you have to go and complicate things
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Twitter: berget
I have been doing some detailed research lately, and since I’m already a paid member of SeoMoz, I started using Followerwonk (it’s included in the membership). But, my next post will be an overview of different tools that helps us with tracking and analyzing Twitter.
Twitter: rancorinfotech
Certainly, there are lot of useful tools available to analyze and improve your twitter social growth. I use buffer, Tweetdeck, hootsuite, tweriod and commun.it. These tools are just amazing and helps you to receive and share relevant information.
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Twitter: berget
I have never used tweriod and commun.it, I’ll need to take a closer look at what they have to offer. Thanks a lot Aasma.
Twitter: Fatima_hipolito
HI sir Jens, this page was really cool you share something really important to know..
Twitter: berget
I’m glad you enjoyed it Joseph
Twitter: Fatima_hipolito
Sir sir jens, this page is really helpful to me, glad to see it…
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Twitter: dropping
Jens, I went by the site (followerwonk) and want to sign up for free. did you do that? It always redirects me to an SEO site where you can only get 30 days free. Is that what you did or did you buy the service? If you get a sec let me know. Inquiring minds.
Cheers.
Twitter: berget
Hi Ralph,
I am paying for SeoMoz and I get followerwonk that way, so I am actually not sure how “regular” users are doing it. You can wait a few days for my next post. It will be an overiew of services that will help you with analytics and stats for Twitter
Twitter: adriennesmith40
That’s a pretty cool tool Jens and gives a lot of really great information. I know there are so many tools out there now and this one is just another one to add to that list.
I like the map function and their twitter activity. The one I use just tells me how many tweets they’ve done but not how often or when. I also like that it shows you when to tweet as well because different tools seem to give me different answers to that.
I think I’ll check this one out. Might find more info with this one so thanks for that introduction.
~Adrienne
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Twitter: berget
It’s been a while since I did any research on Twitter, but after I started using Followerwonk I remembered how much fun it was
Twitter: thejoshuawilner
Hi Jens,
You are killing me here, but in a good way. I have spent all sorts of time checking out my numbers and trying to figure out what is significant and what isn’t.
It is very interesting.
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Twitter: berget
I’m glad it’s in a good way
Twitter: techivy
Wow…i love the map feature…that will be really helpful. I am off now to start using the Followerwonk
Thanks a ton for sharing.
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Twitter: berget
Yes, Praveen, the map feature is awesome. And the best part is that I can zoom in and find out the country, and the city my followers live in just by looking at the map
Twitter: wonderoftech
Lol, Jens, I think I might be skewing your numbers. I am well represented in your stats.
I haven’t looked at the location of my Twitter followers, but I examine my blog readers’ location constantly. About 40% of my readers are outside the US, which is challenging because much of what I write about isn’t available outside the US yet. I have the choice of waiting until the devices are available worldwide, and not writing about cutting edge tech, or writing about tech when it launches and hope that my readers are interested to see what’s way ahead for them.
My ideal tech is worldwide, available to everyone and free. But I can only write so much about Facebook and Twitter.
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Twitter: berget
I know, you are all over the place
It’s been a while since I’ve looked at my blog readers, but last time most of my readers lived in the US. I’ve been developing some interesting stats in Google Analytics for my clients, it’s time that I do something similar for myself. You’re writing about so many awesome services, and even though many of them aren’t available in Norway, I still enjoy reading about them
Twitter: wonderoftech
That’s good to know, Jens. Yes, you should look at your readers for Sly Marketing. I’m thinking because you write in English that makes you more popular in the US than if you wrote in Norwegian.
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Twitter: berget
That’s true. I’ve started a Norwegian blog for my business, but I haven’t had the time to write much in Norwegian. On the other hand, I’m thinking that I probably should spend more time on the Norwegian site, since right now, 100% of my clients are from Norway and 99% of the money I’m earning is by helping my clients
Twitter: timbo1973
Hi Jens
That sounds like an interesting tool Jens. I had a quick look at it and will have a look again tomorrow. I tend to use Commun.it and Tweetdeck most of the time but Followerwonk looks awesome too!
I love the map, that’s great.
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Twitter: berget
I still haven’t tried Commun.it, and I’m using HootSuite instead of Tweetdeck. It seems that HootSuite and Tweetdeck are very similar, but I decided to go with HootSuite because I liked the design better
You opened doors for new ideas to bloggers. Thank you very much. I’ve been using Twitter as one of my marketing tools and I haven’t realized there are certain factors that affect your traffic through Twitter.
Twitter: berget
Thanks a lot for the feedback Emilia
Hi Jens! This is simply revolutionary
I highly believe that Twitter is one of the most effective means to promote a business and having the ability to analyze the entire picture is definitely a plus. Thanks!
Twitter: berget
Thanks a lot for the feedback Kristine
Hi Jens
Thanks for this comprehensive and in-depth look, this is the time I’ve encountered Followerwonk but it sure looks beneficial for anyone who needs to strategies to implement to be able to efficiently leverage this platform. Neat!
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Twitter: berget
Hi Joy,
Most people are not analyzing Twitter this way, but it sure helps a lot to understand who your followers are. This way it becomes so much easier to tweet and understand who you should be focusing on to get the message out.
I haven’t tried such, but thanks for giving new ideas and tips in making the blogging more fun to do and an easy access for bloggers. I believe that this post is a timely post nowadays since social media -twitter is really on hand on people and creates connections even for marketing purposes.
Twitter: berget
Thank you for the feedback Elaine
Thank you so much for the help. This article is a gem!
Twitter: berget
Thank you for the feedback Calra.
I also un-follow those accounts who pose as real people. Or those who are not interested in my posts
Twitter: berget
That’s interesting Kelly, how do you do it, are you using a service for it?
This is very informative. I agree, keeping track of your followers is definitely a must.
Twitter: berget
Thanks a lot for the feedback Veronica
Yes, the active hours. Sometimes, you also have to thrive and tweet on those peak hours when most of your followers are online. Thanks for the tips!
Twitter: berget
My pleasure Sandra. Thank you for the feedback.
Very interesting these graphics in special the pie charts. I didn’t think about that things about followers until now. That’s why i enjoyed your article.
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Twitter: berget
It took me a while to figure out this myself Jerry. Now, I do it about once a week. This works great.
Twitter: BrankicaU
Woo hoo, a new toy to play with! Haven’t tried this tool, well actually I did like sign up some time ago but never gave it more than a few minutes and forgot about it (like most of the tools I run into) but now that you showed all the pretty pictures I will have to put away time to do this!
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Twitter: berget
I’m using it a few times every week to track my followers and to see what’s happening with my tweets. It looks really good and it’s easy to see the stats
This i a great article! I enjoyed reading it.
Twitter: berget
That’s great. Thank you for the feedback.
A great informative post. There is the presence of plenty of tools to ameliorate the growth of the Twitter. I personally prefer hootsuite and commun it. I grabbed a lot of good points through this share. Thanks for the post.
Twitter: berget
Thank you for the feedback aayna
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Your article is very crisp and nice to study. Last month only I have started twitter marketing and sharing for my website as it is also one of the consideration from seo point of view. I understood really what should to do and not to do from this article.
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Twitter: berget
That’s great that you’ve started using Twitter Vandhana. Let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy your Sunday.