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

bit.ly

bururl

eweri

hex.io

poprl

snipurl

tinyurl

twurl

ziprl

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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How To Track Your Link Stats On Twitter and Friendfeed