Clicky continues to innovate, introduces Twitter Brand Analytics

Written on 24th April 2009                                                                                                              2 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

Clicky, we’ve covered before (here and here), and within good reason, its product offering and reliability is second to none and makes it THE analytics app of the moment.

Whilst its focus is primarily on real time site analytics, Clicky introduced Twitter follower count tracking on the dashboard and now it takes things further, with a section devoted to analyzing tweets.

How does it work?

The new feature uses the Twitter search API, and to to get things set up, you simply insert a search term of your choice. Search terms can be as simple as “@zee” if you just want to track a username or “tech near:Berlin within:20mi” if you want to track something a little more complex. This makes it quite easy to track competitors too.

What does it track?

As you can see below, the Twitter analytics dashboard is divided into seven sections; one tracking the number of tweets, the senders of those tweets, the recipients of those tweets, the types of those tweets, links mentioned, tags mentioned and finally a list of the most recent tweets for that search. (more…)

analytics, clicky, getclicky, twitter

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TwitterCounter API launches with Clicky & Mint support

Written on 25th November 2008                                                                                                              1 COMMENT
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

TwitterCounter is one of the projects that got its start in The Next Web Incubator a few months ago. It has been growing madly and we are very proud that is doing so well.

Last week Joost de Valk contacted us with a question: “why doesn’t TwitterCounter offer an API?”

Well, the only reason why we didn’t offer it yet is that we (Arjen mainly) had been completely focused on keeping up with growth and making sure the servers weren’t crashing on us. But a few weeks ago we upgraded our servers and the service was doing fine so I decided to start coding on the API right away.

TwitterCounter in Mint

TwitterCounter in Clicky

Within hours it became clear to me that building a complete API was actually more difficult than my developers skills permitted me to comprehend. I contacted Joost again and asked him what he needed exactly in an API. He responded with a list of features that made me desperate! I could never built all that on short notice! But he ended his note with a sentence that made me smile.

He said “… but if you give me the root password for your service I can just build it for you. :-)”.

I quickly consulted Arjen and we both agreed that it would be an interesting idea to just hand over the keys to the castle! So I emailed Joost our server details and just hoped it would all turn out okay.

It did.

Today we are proudly presenting the TwitterCounter API.

Joost de Valk has built a Pepper for Mint and Sean Hammons has integrated TwitterCounter into Clicky. If you have ideas on how to use TwitterCounter Data for your service don’t hesitate to contact us.

API, clicky, Feedburner, getclicky, joost de valk, sean hammons, twitter, twittercounter

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Clicky brings stats to the iPhone, it looks awesome

Written on 6th September 2008                                                                                                              7 COMMENTS
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Being a stats-addict sucks. You experience highs and lows the whole day, which causes unpredictable mood swings. Though when you’re running a project that actually does well, it doesn’t hurt to check it every once in a while. For me, checking The Next Web stats sort of works like a happy-pill, I guess. So I was glad to hear that my favorite statistics service Clicky (review here) will officially launch an iPhone version of its stats dashboard on Monday. And guess what? It’s already available on m.getclicky.com!

When opening the page in your iPhone, you’ll see an overview of all your web sites. Click on one, and you can choose whether you want to check the stats of “Today”, “Yesterday”, “Last Week”, and some other date options. Then a screen with a summary appears and the options to see the “Visitor tally”, the “Action tally”, and the “Recent visitors” (There are actually a ton more options, just scroll down). To give you an idea of the eye-candy, you can see our recent visitors at the right.

Although Google Analytics is the standard, I use Clicky for my sites. I believe smaller companies are more likely to innovate and the launch of the iPhone app proves that (No Google Analytics app so far).

Disclosure: we’re involved in a affiliate program with Clicky. Which we wouldn’t be if the service wasn’t that great. Oh an by the way, there are no affiliate links in this post.

UPDATE: Clicky has now ‘officially’ launched the App.

clicky, getclicky, google analytics, iphone, iphone app, shiny object

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