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The analytics issue with Twitter - Joost de Valk

yoast.com — Twitter is great for traffic, but just how great it is, well, you'll never really know. Why not? You'll ask. Well, the only traffic you'll see coming from Twitter is traffic that comes through Twitters web interface. And most people I know don't use the web interface, they use desktop and / or phone clients.

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  • lorductape, on 01/20/2009, -0/+5Twitter has bigger problems than analytics. Monetization. Bandwidth. Why that cute girl in my bio class stopped updating her status with where she is when I started showing up wherever she said.
  • babasave, on 01/20/2009, -2/+5bring it on - the guy is really great - his WP plugins are a must have for every WP webmaster!
  • mrbecker, on 01/20/2009, -0/+2I track the numbers using the tinyurl.cc hit counter. It matches up with the numbers I see in goog anylitics (once it updates) as coming from twitter.com. Am I missing something here? Thx, Twitter.com/Michael_bay
  • cianw, on 01/19/2009, -2/+4genius - yoast is the tracking ninja
  • Krsto, on 01/20/2009, -1/+2Very good article and so true by the way...
  • promotepoint, on 01/20/2009, -0/+1ya, people use twitter.
  • phreak79, on 01/20/2009, -1/+2Superb. This has always been a blind spot previously. Outstanding hack.
  • ImprovingTheWeb, on 01/20/2009, -2/+3Very nicely done Yoast :)
  • jdevalk, on 01/22/2009, -0/+1Yes, if someone is coming from a mobile phone client, he's not coming from twitter.com.
  • totallyhigh, on 02/19/2009, -0/+1Cool to see yoast on digg
  • feralparakeet, on 01/20/2009, -1/+2I use the web interface, actually, because the last thing I need is another random piece of junk on my desktop. When I want to check Twitter, I'll flip through a couple of pages on the site. Plus, if I started caring about traffic and such on my twitter, it would no longer be about sharing random thoughts and experiences, and would become the web-equivalent of whoring myself out. NTTAWWT, I guess.
  • toddynho, on 01/20/2009, -1/+1very good point, never thought of this.
  • 1bestblogs, on 04/16/2009, -0/+0Yeah tracking via your Feedburner feed stats is another way.
  • kid625, on 04/16/2009, -0/+0I use Google Analytics campaign tracking on RSS feed as well. Great Digg!
  • skunkstar, on 01/20/2009, -2/+1fabulous, great article from Joost as always.
  • AravindJose, on 01/20/2009, -1/+0Indeed.
  • SuperSunny, on 01/20/2009, -2/+1People use Twitter?

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