Show Me The Data, Twitter!

According to ReadWriteWeb, Twitter has saved all of our updates, which means it’s sitting on a mountain of 140-character (or less) messages that have different degrees of value.

The problem is getting access to your data is far from user-friendly, although Twitter contends you can find them by doing a search.

What I’d like (and I’m sure many other people and companies would like too0 – is a user-friendly, intuitive way to find, filter, categorize and share my data. Over the past two years, for example, I’ve shared hundreds of links to interesting content and online services. (Well, I think they’ve been interesting).

But there’s no easy way to see all of these links in totality or by category, timeframe or topic. I also want to see how much activity each of those links has attracted in terms of number of clicks, people, geography and time.

From what I can tell, the data being stored by Twitter will likely be leveraged to launch premium analytics tools to individuals and companies to do all the things I have outlined. It makes perfect sense from a revenue perspective, and will give Twitter a solid business model.


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