What was President Obama’s Most Favorited Tweet?

What was President Obama’s Most Favorited Tweet?

Twitonomy

In the article, “59 Free Twitter Tools and Apps to Fit Any Need, ” by Kevan Lee, this social media app is

described as …

… a dashboard of analytics for whichever Twitter user you choose (even yours). Analyzes profiles,

tweets, engagement, and more, ….

It is an app that allows you to search for tweets of everyone you are following, people not following you,

and by just those who are following you.

As an example, I start off with the 1,800 people I am following. Let’s say I’m interested in tweets about

Russia. So I type that into the search field.

Before the sort

After a search for “russia,”

the number of users drops to 115. I can sort this list by join date, number of tweets, following,

followers, listed, and last tweet. I’m going to sort the list by last tweet.

Sorted by last tweet

By the way, you can download and print your list, but only if you upgrade to Twitonomy Premium.

Several other features/services come with a premium account. I really can’t say it better than the

website does, so, below is an excerpt from it:

One of the very best things about Twitonomy is its Twitter profile of you. In an easy to read display, it

will let you know how may tweets you make each day, how many user mentions you’ve made, how

many links you’ve used, tweets retweeted, tweets favorited, percentage of retweets, percentage of

replies, average number of hashtags per tweet, the average number of retweets for the user’s tweets,1

and average number of favorites favorited by others.2

Guess what I just found out? Twitonomy offers a unique feature that takes the frustration out of

waiting for Twitter to send you an archive of your tweets. The first time I requested an archive from

Twitter, the process seemed to go pretty smoothly, but there’s been a couple of times since then when I

tried to get it, but Twitter never sent it to me. All you have to do to get a record of any tweet you’ve

ever sent is use Twitonomy. Just click on “analyze a Twitter profile.” (If you’ve signed in as yourself,

your information will populate the fields.)

The very top portion of this page reveals that I’ve sent 1,044 tweets, I’m following 1,800, 210 follow me,

and I’ve been listed twice. It also reveals that I joined on November 26, 2013 making me Twitter’s

2,205,775th user. It tells you that my followers/following ratio is .12. Twitonomy puts a “?” inside a

circle to let you know it has more information for you on the particular item if you’re interested. Just

hover your mouse over it and a window of explanation will pop up. The arrow next to the “Download &

Print3” button lets you toggle on/off the view for the particular item.

1 According to Twitonomy, the higher this number, the more likely that the user is considered a valuable source of

information by others. 2 Ibid.

3 A feature only available for paid subscribers.

If you want to download all your tweets into an Excel spreadsheet, simply click the Tweets button. The

chart then shows you your tweet history.

However, here’s another thing that Twitonomy does that I haven’t seen elsewhere. It displays the

avatars and Twitter handles of those you’ve retweeted most, how many times you’ve retweeted them,

and then makes a pie chart out of it. It does the same for those users you’ve replied to most, those

users you’ve mentioned most, and those hashtags you’ve used the most.

Users most retweeted, replied to, mentioned, and hashtags most used.

The page is chock full of great collections. Underneath the charts you see above, it displays a list of your

most retweeted tweets and most favorited tweets. Then it shows bar graphs of days of the week and

hours of the day, letting you know, by each increment (i.e., day or hour) how many tweets you sent out.

It then shows you from which platforms you most tweeted from.4

4 The Twitonomy website mentions that Profile Analytics are calculated on data returned by Twitter who returns a

maximum of up to 3,200 of a user's most recent tweets

Days of the week, hours of the day, platform most tweeted from.

In the right hand column of this page, you’ll also see a list of your tweets, a list of the tweets of your

followers, a list of tweets of those you follow, and a list of your favorites.

Here’s another cool thing. You aren’t restricted to analyzing yourself. You can analyze any Twitter

handle you’d like.

Love him or hate him, the man who seems to be at the center of a lot of heated debate these days is our

very own president, Mr. Barack Obama. He’s got a verified5 Twitter account. Let’s take a look at it.

5 A verified account is any Twitter account with a blue verified badge. For more definitions every social media user

should know see the article, “28 Twitter Apps Later ….”

Up at the top, you can see how many tweets he’s sent, how many he is following, how many followers

he has, and how many times he’s been listed. Twitonomy also reveals that he joined Twitter March 5,

2007. He was user #813,286.

Tweet Analytics for @BarackObama

I notice right away, that Barack Obama and I have very little in common with our tweet habits, except

for one thing – we don’t seem to reply to others very much.

I didn’t bother showing you my most favorited tweets. I just didn’t think this audience would find them

all that interesting. You may, however, find the most favorited tweets of President Obama interesting.

Here they are:

@BarackObama’s tweets that were favorited the most

Twitonomy also has a “Mentions and RTs” page. It is another area of Twitonomy that is chock full of

information. I’ll admit, I’m a bit on social media analytics overload right now, so I’m not going to go over

everything on this page, but one of the most interesting things on it was the information I’ve presented

to you in the image below:

Tweets that have been favorited, by whom, and what their reach potential is

6

You’ll notice, from the little bird icon you see in the image above that all of these tweets can be

reopened from within the Twitonomy platform.

Another reason, I really didn’t go into depth about this page is that, if it isn’t already obvious, I’m not

exactly what you’d call a social media power user, so my information just wasn’t all that interesting to

me. When only 48 of your tweets have been favorited, stats on such a small number seem a bit

ridiculous to study in depth. I’d love to be able to study someone else’s, but that doesn’t appear to be

an option for this page.

Before I get into pricing, the last thing I’ll say about Twitonomy is that it also helps you manage your

lists, by allowing you to pin them to your dashboard.

Some of the lists I subscribe to

6 As stated on the Twitonomy website, “Potential Reach” is the total aggregate number of followers of the people

who retweeted this tweet.

You can open up your list to display some of the most recent tweets and most frequent contributors:

If you click on the arrow next to “Pin to dashboard,” the list will open up with the most recent tweets for that list.

Twitonomy follows a pricing plan where everybody gets the same amount of everything and you just

pay for the service by month or year, receiving various discounts for larger commitments of time (or

should I say “money”). I’m not complaining. For now, I’m getting to use some of its features for free.

See also:

http://marketingland.com/twitonomy-the-best-twitter-analytics-tool-youve-never-heard-of-55389

http://www.razorsocial.com/free-twitter-analytics/

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/smtoolbox-improve-your-twitter-insights-twitonomy

http://beta21.circussocial.com/tools/analyzing-twitter-activity-twitonomy-review/