Posts Tagged ‘Web Research’

The life of a Tweet

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

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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