If everybody looks through the history of comments you will see that "Will" is the creator of this site and has answered a lot of questions within this string. The most common question is "what is the date range" to which he has answered multiple times it is from the launch of twitter (march 2001) until now.
Will - great job on this site, it is very useful and will help companies gain insight into the social media landscape they are trying desperately to better understand. I agree with many others what would be extremely useful is the ability to better understand the context in which these words are being used. A drill down scenario would be really nice to have, but you could probably accomplish the same thing by providing the ability (and associated help) to do advanced searches (boolean operators, exclusions, etc).
Regards,
Chad Estes (chad@vitrue.com)
Senior Product Manager
Vitrue, Inc.
Their passion. Your brand.â„¢
Social media solutions for marketers, agencies and publishers.
comment:
the number for the phrase seems to change over time - in both directions. one count for the phrase 'twitter group' is 31200, another is 31500. hit refresh a few times and it will switch between the two - that is, it's not going only from a lower number to a higher number.
question: any plans to add a graphing component? it would be cool to see frequency over time.
Would like to include this in my article in The Information Advisor (www.informationadvisor.com) on the best and most interesting addons for Twitter.
Can you tell me:
1. who is behind this site?
2. when it was launched
3. how much of Twitter do you review for the charts (eg last 1,000 messages; last 3 months; today's Tweets, etc)
Thank you--Robert Berkman, Editor, The Information Advisor Rochester NY
Email: robertberkman@gmail.com
Would like to include this in my article in The Information Advisor (www.informationadvisor.com) on the best and most interesting addons for Twitter.
Can you tell me:
1. who is behind this site?
2. when it was launched
3. how much of Twitter do you review for the charts (eg last 1,000 messages; last 3 months; today's Tweets, etc)
Thank you--Robert Berkman, Editor, The Information Advisor Rochester NY
I'm new, and despite being considered a rather with it kinda gal---I can't figure out what I'm doing! I typed in writer, first draft, novel---and found lots of matches...but how can I get TO them?
My name is Mike Sasaki and I work for OuterJoin, Inc., which is an all inclusive online marketing firm. I'm also the founder of RecipeMatcher (www.recipematcher.com). I started working with OuterJoin a year ago and they created and maximized RecipeMatcher's online presence. RecipeMatcher has been on Techcrunch, Mashable, Lifehacker, Centernetworks, Killer Startups, the BBC and many local talk shows and newspapers. I joined OuterJoin as an employee because I saw firsthand how great the online marketing services are. At OuterJoin, I'm responsible for creating a new network of 100 websites/startups. Each website/startup that is a member of this network will receive a package of online services for a significantly reduced price (including access to my media contact list). I understand that keeping costs low when starting up is crucial. I'd love the opportunity to speak with you. Please feel free to contact me at anytime.
Best regards,
Mike Sasaki
Director
OuterJoin (www.ojoin.com)
mksasaki@ojoin.com
Fantastic job, this is incredibly insightful. Some quick questions:
1. What's the date range for all tweets it is pulling?
2. Is there a ceiling on number of values returned?
3. Just confirming - this is pulling from the public timeline, and not from users an account is subscribed to, right?
Cool toy to see what people are putting out there. What is the time interval for the results? Are these number the hits on terms for the last hour, day week?
Just wanted to say that I recently discovered this site by accident and although it's use is fairly simple, it gives the user a chance to look into the mysterious world of Twitter to uncover trends. Although the Twitter userbase makes up a small portion of the Internet, it is quite entertaining to figure out what the GENERAL interests are within the community. For instance, Coffee appears over 15,000 times while Tea appears only 5,000 times and Water only appears 3,920 times. Therefor, it is safe to assume that the majority of Twitter users are coffee drinkers. It's also interesting to note that the word Lunch appears over 17,000 times which is the highest amount when compared with other times of the day. So now we know what workers are really doing on their lunch breaks :P
If I had one suggestion, it would be to somehow someway include the actual Twitter message or messages that included the searched term. This set of results could also be complimented by the username who created the message and then the username could link to their Twitter page. I'm not sure if you can do this because I figure it would produce quite a bit of strain on the server considering all of the Twitter queries that would be performed but I still think it would be cool to see.
This is a cool service you guys have developed and so far it has taken up at least an hours worth of my time and I'm sure it will take up many more. Keep up the good work.
on Sat Jun 09 2007
Spanky said:
What would really be great would be to see the top 5 words used as the default (excluding short words, like under 4 letters). Also adding an "ALL" feature, that allows you to search how many posts contain ALL of the words you entered.
Nice work.
I saw 121000 for "http://" will it be possible to know the links ?
Links classified by popularity , for exemple http://tweetvolume.com : 120999 ... ;-)
Thanks Melody,
We planned on doing that all along. But Since Twitter has been running slow recently we thought we'd wait. Now that it looks like things are going better over in Twitterland we'll get back to it. It may take us a little while - since this is a side project. Stay tuned and thanks again for your suggestion.
Jeff
Re pikamookie, clicky and Prout (and everyone else who's had this problem):
I just wanted to apologize about the "changing results" phenomenon that some of you have experienced. There was a scalability issue that was leading to a data overwrite problem that was completely my fault! It should be resolved now. If anyone continues to have this problem please let me know.
on Fri Jun 01 2007
Mark said:
WHAT DOES IT DO !!!!!!111!!!!!1111 i don't get it.....
on Fri Jun 01 2007
Prout said:
Why do the results change ?
Try for example a test with 5 words. And try again a few seconds later : resluts change...isn't weird ?
on Fri Jun 01 2007
Ben said:
Great idea! Very much like the "SROM" (Sucks/Rules-o-Meter) from years ago, but more dynamic.
My only complaint is that there's no way to examine the results being counted. It'd be nice if I could click on one of the search terms and be taken to a "search results" page for that word.
Here's why: Sometimes I get a lot of hits for something and I don't know why. For example, there are ton more people twittering about "Macs" than "Windows". Could it be because people are talking a lot about eating Big Macs? There's no way to tell without the context.
This was a problem with the original Sucks/Rules-o-Meter. For example, it showed that "emacs rules" was a much less common phrase than "vi rules" and concluded that the vi text editor was superior. However, if you looked at the actual search results, you'd see that people were using "vi" as a Roman numeral!
The data seems to be changing by the seconds. I typed in ufc, mma, fights, bj penn, and couture and they all changed numbers and ranks relative to each other. A few times UFC is higher than mma but then ten seconds later, mma was 2000 higher!
Duane Schau,
if you're using Live Messenger and have the "Messenger Plus! Live" plugin installed, there's a script that can be added so you can update your twitter status using any open conversation window.
hope it helps till they get their own twitter bot.
download Messenger Plus, Live!: http://www.msgpluslive.net/download/
the twitter scipt: http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/view/273-Twitter-Plus/
Hello. If you would like to create a link with your search terms, you can email a link to the chart by using the "Send this chart to a Friend" section of the site, or you can create the link by hand. For example, this is a link to a chart for the words "excited", "sad", "happy" and "airplane":
how about the gap. the results are base on hours? on days? on last minutes? can i search when i a timeframe some word was said by someone? or how this word was positionated in the last week everyday?
Re clicky's comment: I'm not experiencing the data changing on repeated searches. Could you send me some example searches to take a look at? If you or others continue to have this problem we'll definitely look into it. Thanks.
Re Carl Weaver & Mike: The time-frame is the length of time twitter has been around. The results are each an estimated (not by me!) count of the number of times a word or phrase has appeared in a Twitter post. I do this by simply asking Google. I actually have a version of the site that returns the most relevant posts from Twitter but because of Twitter's down time of late that feature is pretty darn slow(!) and won't be rolled out until they are once again running smoothly.
Re Fernando: There is a way to pass search phrases. I built this feature for the "Send this chart to a Friend!" feature. Just try passing this URL for example:
http://www.tweetvolume.com/index.php?search_phrases=fun,happy,talk,yeah
your tool here says it tells how often a phrase appears in Twitter. In what timeframe is that? I don't know how to interpret the information, unless it is used only in comparison to others.
It would be nice if the submit to the form were a GET instead of a POST, so we could have URLs with the results of the search.
Nice job!
on Sat May 26 2007
clicky said:
I refresh the page (same words), and the graph changes drastically... explain? It seems it doesn't reflect any real data... and what's the mention of google about?
nice gadget. Looks like you have an unofficial api by passing comma delimited search terms in param search_phrases, right? You should build a little tool to tinyurl or dwarfurl those and twitter them, like http://twitter.com/cori/statuses/78831632
on Fri May 25 2007
Josh said:
I am a Twitter addict. Tweet Volume is such a fun website to use because I am able to search different terms to see how other people are communicating on Twitter. This is awesome! Thanks Wowza!
Will - great job on this site, it is very useful and will help companies gain insight into the social media landscape they are trying desperately to better understand. I agree with many others what would be extremely useful is the ability to better understand the context in which these words are being used. A drill down scenario would be really nice to have, but you could probably accomplish the same thing by providing the ability (and associated help) to do advanced searches (boolean operators, exclusions, etc).
Regards,
Chad Estes (chad@vitrue.com)
Senior Product Manager
Vitrue, Inc.
Their passion. Your brand.â„¢
Social media solutions for marketers, agencies and publishers.
Thanks,
Thanks
myTmedia
There are some good questions in the list below - where can I find answers?
the number for the phrase seems to change over time - in both directions. one count for the phrase 'twitter group' is 31200, another is 31500. hit refresh a few times and it will switch between the two - that is, it's not going only from a lower number to a higher number.
question: any plans to add a graphing component? it would be cool to see frequency over time.
thanks.
dmckinnon@sicolamartin.com
thanks...
I'd really appreciate it if you could drop me an email with the answer: sarah.saline@gmail.com
Thanks!
Can you tell me:
1. who is behind this site?
2. when it was launched
3. how much of Twitter do you review for the charts (eg last 1,000 messages; last 3 months; today's Tweets, etc)
Thank you--Robert Berkman, Editor, The Information Advisor Rochester NY
Email: robertberkman@gmail.com
Can you tell me:
1. who is behind this site?
2. when it was launched
3. how much of Twitter do you review for the charts (eg last 1,000 messages; last 3 months; today's Tweets, etc)
Thank you--Robert Berkman, Editor, The Information Advisor Rochester NY
I found your site & I can't work out what 'often' means. For example, I put in genius & it returned the answer 4610.
Does that mean 4610 times ever? or does that mean 4610 times in the last week - & is that Google or Twitter?
thanks & best
James
+44 7782 198 882
Embarrassed and obtuse,
Miz_B
Great site – very useful.
Suggestion: would love to see a permalink button so I can copy a link rather than emailing it.
Thanks,
Dan
Would be nice to have a hyperlink to the underlying search results. So a click of the term leads to a query result.
Neat idea, thanks for doing the legwork
Best regards,
Mike Sasaki
Director
OuterJoin (www.ojoin.com)
mksasaki@ojoin.com
I wanted to answer some of the questions here quick.
Re: Date Range questions.
The date range is simply from the birth of Twitter until now. So I guess that from around March of 2001 up until today.
Re: David Berkowitz
Right now all of the data that you're seeing is all of the data we have.
Re: Eric
2. No there isn't a ceiling. To allow that, all graph data is displayed relative to itself.
3. This only pulls public data.
Re: Adam Denison
We actually built a version that does just that. We've just been a little bit too busy to roll it out.
1. What's the date range for all tweets it is pulling?
2. Is there a ceiling on number of values returned?
3. Just confirming - this is pulling from the public timeline, and not from users an account is subscribed to, right?
I typed in "mtv" and your site comes back with 1,120 however when I do a google for "mtv" and restrict the site to twitter.com I get 1,190 results.
Is there a feature in the API to lookups "mentions" of a phrase?
Results begin from which date?
I found out that this works:
http://www.tweetvolume.com/?search_phrases=diner,breakfast,lunch,snack,
but it doesn't survive TinyURL-ing. Can you make it easy to share a url? (For maximum viral effect)
Hope this helps.
Michiel
great application I found via Steve Rubel - it's quite interesting to see if people are writing about topics of your interest :)
Did Google determine special conditions for your widget to squeeze information out of their database?
If I had one suggestion, it would be to somehow someway include the actual Twitter message or messages that included the searched term. This set of results could also be complimented by the username who created the message and then the username could link to their Twitter page. I'm not sure if you can do this because I figure it would produce quite a bit of strain on the server considering all of the Twitter queries that would be performed but I still think it would be cool to see.
This is a cool service you guys have developed and so far it has taken up at least an hours worth of my time and I'm sure it will take up many more. Keep up the good work.
Very fun!
Nice work.
I saw 121000 for "http://" will it be possible to know the links ?
Links classified by popularity , for exemple http://tweetvolume.com : 120999 ... ;-)
Patrick
We planned on doing that all along. But Since Twitter has been running slow recently we thought we'd wait. Now that it looks like things are going better over in Twitterland we'll get back to it. It may take us a little while - since this is a side project. Stay tuned and thanks again for your suggestion.
Jeff
Jeff
Re pikamookie, clicky and Prout (and everyone else who's had this problem):
I just wanted to apologize about the "changing results" phenomenon that some of you have experienced. There was a scalability issue that was leading to a data overwrite problem that was completely my fault! It should be resolved now. If anyone continues to have this problem please let me know.
Try for example a test with 5 words. And try again a few seconds later : resluts change...isn't weird ?
My only complaint is that there's no way to examine the results being counted. It'd be nice if I could click on one of the search terms and be taken to a "search results" page for that word.
Here's why: Sometimes I get a lot of hits for something and I don't know why. For example, there are ton more people twittering about "Macs" than "Windows". Could it be because people are talking a lot about eating Big Macs? There's no way to tell without the context.
This was a problem with the original Sucks/Rules-o-Meter. For example, it showed that "emacs rules" was a much less common phrase than "vi rules" and concluded that the vi text editor was superior. However, if you looked at the actual search results, you'd see that people were using "vi" as a Roman numeral!
Still a cool app though!
if you're using Live Messenger and have the "Messenger Plus! Live" plugin installed, there's a script that can be added so you can update your twitter status using any open conversation window.
hope it helps till they get their own twitter bot.
download Messenger Plus, Live!: http://www.msgpluslive.net/download/
the twitter scipt: http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/view/273-Twitter-Plus/
Hello. If you would like to create a link with your search terms, you can email a link to the chart by using the "Send this chart to a Friend" section of the site, or you can create the link by hand. For example, this is a link to a chart for the words "excited", "sad", "happy" and "airplane":
http://www.tweetvolume.com/index.php?search_phrases=excited,sad,happy,airplane
Thanks!
Re Carl Weaver & Mike: The time-frame is the length of time twitter has been around. The results are each an estimated (not by me!) count of the number of times a word or phrase has appeared in a Twitter post. I do this by simply asking Google. I actually have a version of the site that returns the most relevant posts from Twitter but because of Twitter's down time of late that feature is pretty darn slow(!) and won't be rolled out until they are once again running smoothly.
Re Fernando: There is a way to pass search phrases. I built this feature for the "Send this chart to a Friend!" feature. Just try passing this URL for example:
http://www.tweetvolume.com/index.php?search_phrases=fun,happy,talk,yeah
http://www.brandvocal.com/1000heads/2007/05/tweetvolume.html
Nice job!
Hope you all like the site!