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The life of a Tweet

July 8th, 2009 by Barrett Lyon

This system is tracking the anatomy and life of a Tweet. I sent out the following Tweet on July 8 16:49:00 PDT:

@BarrettLyon #RTME Click http://blyon.com/rtme and watch the realtime results the
other RT/clicks! RT this as much as possible!

The concept is simple, I wrote a stats engine to track the data of each user that clicks on the embeded URL in the tweet.

As people click on the link and retweet, the data on this page populates and rows near realtime.

What you are looking at now is 2 minutes from realtime results of the life of the Tweet.

Tweet Click-Throughs by Time

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Interactive Click-Throughs Map

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Click-Throughs by Country

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So far we’ve seen 95 countries:

1. United States 1440
2. Mexico 267
3. United Kingdom 187
4. Canada 132
5. Singapore 126
6. France 100
7. Germany 96
8. China 77
9. Spain 68
10. Brazil 68
11. unknown 56
12. South Africa 53
13. Netherlands 49
14. Australia 49
15. Russia 47

Click-Through Broswer Type

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There have been 13886 different browser types:

1. Firefox 3.5 4308
2. Firefox 3.0 1925
3. Safari 4.0 1196
4. MSIE 7.0 1123
5. MSIE 8.0 780
6. MSIE 6.0 754
7. Chrome 3.0 686
8. Opera 9.80 264
9. MSIE 8.0 (Media Center 5.0) 251
10. MSIE 7.0 (Media Center 5.0) 249
11. Firefox 2.0 182
12. Chrome 2.0 168
13. Mozilla 5.0 154
14. MSIE 8.0 (Media Center 6.0) 144
15. Mozilla 4.0 129

User Profile Page Click-Throughs

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1. Direct 13828
2. barrettlyon 26
3. jayadelson 11
4. home 6
5. dlprager 5
6. fantomsurfer 2
7. msherr 2
8. cyberwar 1
9. barrettlyon 1
10. alexalbrecht 1
11. cyberwar 1
12. twitter 1
13. timeline/home 1

Retweets by ASN (network)

1. 8151 180
2. 8075 146
3. 9506 119
4. 14778 93
5. 7132 75
6. 19262 64
7. 33651 61
8. 1668 54
9. 5713 51
10. 22773 50
11. 23724 31
12. 15169 30
13. 13448 30
14. 14618 30
15. 3352 29

About the System

There’s anti-game code in this, each click on rtme only counts once. One click, one vote!

The stats should stay about 120 seconds behind realtime. Please send me comments, I can update the code anytime.

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10 Responses to “The life of a Tweet”

  1. Twitted by scerruti says:
    July 8, 2009 at 5:25 pm

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  2. digitalfemme says:
    July 8, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    Barrett, this is amazing!

  3. Ms. Herr / @MsHerr says:
    July 8, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    Wholey sexy analytics! A girl of my disposition could really get excited about something like this. ;-)

  4. Ken says:
    July 8, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    Cool B

  5. __sleep says:
    July 9, 2009 at 10:10 am

    probing tweetspace, nice work dude.

  6. nick / @ni00 says:
    July 9, 2009 at 11:05 am

    I’ve seen those graphs before…. looks like a dashboard I use every day. Barrett: the UD government may need your help now to defend us against cyberattack from N Korea!

  7. Barrett Lyon says:
    July 9, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Hey Nick, these graphs are from AMCharts.com they are free graph libraries. I just used them here because they were fun and easy to implement with the code I wrote to make this all work.

    I’m also kinda surprised I have not been contacted regarding the DDoS stuff, but chances are they need to connect with Cisco and spend a lot of money with them first.

  8. GEorge says:
    July 12, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    Thanks for this…Is it possible for me to use this tool. is it available anywhere for downloading. Let me know via my email.

    Thanks,

  9. Anna Rzewnicki says:
    July 16, 2009 at 9:34 am

    Great post! And thanks for the info on the graphs. I can see some possible uses for communications here.

  10. Twitted by tweeterland says:
    July 19, 2009 at 12:57 am

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