The history of RTReporter

For a few years now I have been blogging about Twitter on Twittermania.nl. When writing stories about Twitter, I felt a growing need for tools to analyze and visualize the real-time conversation about certain topics. I found there were hardly any around that met my needs.



This is how it all got started. When I talked to my business partner Marijn Deurloo about this, we decided to start RTReporter. Our idea is to offer a range of tools for journalists, bloggers, PR and marketing managers to monitor the real-time web. Our first product is Tweetcounter.

This application gives the user the possibility to monitor a keyword or combination of keywords real time on Twitter, using the streaming API of Twitter. TweetCounter not only provides the numbers but also visualizes the data in a useful graphic. The app is perfect for feeling the pulse of Twitter.

From the moment the user enters a query TweetCounter will show the number of tweets containing the keyword(s), but also the percentage of retweets, total impressions and the percentage of tweets that contain links.

TweetCounter also displays the top 10 links, photos, videos and hashtags. Graphics and the raw data can be all downloaded.