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5 Terrific Twitter Research Tools By hiteshmanchanda

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May 04, 2009

Summary

Twitter has a wealth of data - it’s a global thought-stream on every topic imaginable. But how do we convert that raw data into insights, trends and actionable information? How can we find the signal in all that noise?

Fortunately, there are several tools out there that can help analyze Twitter data, understand user behavior, and graph it for analysis and presenting to others. Today, we’ve picked out five great tools to get you started.

For more in-depth information about trend tracking on Twitter, take a look at last month’s article, 15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends.

1. TweetStats

Trying to figure out how often you’re actually tweeting? Want to know the trends of individual accounts? TweetStats graphs out information on how often you tweet, when you do it, and your @reply habits. Useful for understanding how you, or anybody else, uses Twitter.

Ideal for: researching individual behavior on Twitter

2. Trendrr