When it comes to Twitter, I’m a link monster. Most of my tweets include links to blog posts, news articles and online services; and most of the people I follow fall into the same camp.
One of the challenges, however, is keeping track of all these links, which have varying degrees of value. You could “favorite” of your tweets but that’s impractical or you could use a service such as Backupify, which backs up social media activity.
Another option is Packrati.us, which takes a wonderfully simple approach by linking your Twitter account to your del.icio.us account. This means that every link you put into a tweet is automatically bookmarked within your del.icio.us account. It’s also possible to set up Packrati.us to bookmark links that include your username (e.g. @markevans).
Right now, Packrati.us is a no-frills service that seems to do one thing well. At some point, it would be good to see some simple analytics or statistical package to offer insight into how much traffic or clicks these links are receiving – something that may be done through by using bit.ly.
Bottom line: If you have any interest in tracking your links-in-tweets, Packrati.us seems like a simple solution.
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Here's a cleaner implementation of the same idea where you add !a to a tweet to bookmark it
http://archivr.com/
Don't yet link to delicious though ….