Track Your Link Stats On Twitter and Friendfeed
Twitter is a great resource in sharing information and reading information shared by others. The best way to do this is by posting articles your read or want to share on Twitter or Friendfriend.
To post your links mainly on Twitter, you would have to use a Shorten Url service mainly due to the character limit set forth with Twitter.
A list of sites that shorten urls below
poprl
zi.ma
Measuring Results
Now that you can shorten urls to fit in Twitter, you need a way to measure results, especially if you run a business. Measuring your link stats is a great tool in Social Media. This helps you analyze trends, popular posts and a way to measure other results.
There are currently 2 major Link Stat Web Tools.
Budurl and Tweetburner
Tweetburner - Mainly tracks your twurl links which is associated with the Twhirl Twitter Client. Tweetburner only tracks Twurl links and posts most clicked stats on the website while also providing you with information on who clicked on your Twurl link.
[Website] - http://tweetburner.com/
Budurls – Tracks only Budurl links in which by contrast is associated with the other top rank twitter client Tweetdeck. Budurl is a very clean, fast and no hassle website. Unlike Tweetburner, Budurl you don’t have to create an account to check the shorten url link stats. Once the link is shortened to track the stats all you have to do is add /s to the end.
For example
www.longgggggposssstttt123333.com <—–long post
www.budurl.com/23466 <—–Budurl Shortened
www.budurl.com/23466/s <——To check stats
[website] http://budurl.com/
Tracking your links can be a great insight in your marketing, business and social relationships. These are great tools to use for Twitter and Friendfeed.
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The Social Media Vision Blog is currently being written by Justin A. Williams. Social Media Vision was created on November 2008 with the intentions of creating rich content blog posts on Social Media, Technology, Marketing and Business. Justin has a background in Sales, Finance, Marketing, Advertising, SEO, SEM, Tech support, Photoshop and Consulting. Justin began his career in Real Estate as a loan officer in 2003 and then took on a Marketing position with Dominion Enterprises where SEO, SEM and Advertising skills was taught. Currently Justin does Independent Social Media Consulting, Finance and Pro Blogs.
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