"What Blogger Should Do"

Evan Williams (evhead) has done a nice job at outlining what myself and many others have been pondering - are sites like digg, flickr, Twitter and friendfeed signaling the "death of blogging"?

I for one have been using some of these tools to share links and blurt out thoughts, and have been "neglecting" this poor little blog. Because of this, I'm planning some changes to my own format that will likely use friendfeed to pull in more of my activity on digg, twitter, flickr and the like. Full blog articles will become secondary and less frequent.

That said, you should read this full article. It suggests some interesting ideas that may help blogging platforms stay relevant.

Twittermaven Survey Results:Users’ perception of brands on Twitter

Twittermaven recently surveyed 240 people with 6 questions regarding interacting with brands. Here are some key findings, as well as a sample chart.

• Most users (89%) agree that brands should engage their customers on Twitter.
  
• almost 90% of users would frown upon poor or inappropriate brand use of Twitter.
• 60% of respondents would recommend a company based on their presence on Twitter and 80% of Twitter users will reward those brands
• More than 60% of respondents have 100+ followers and almost 50% of respondents have posted more than 1000 Tweets

For the full results, including a number of other interesting charts, read the article.

10 Tools for Analyzing Twitter Activity

Feel the need to track some tweets? Get your twitter analytics fix, by using these handy web-based tools...

1. Twitter Grader gives you a grade based on the power of your Twitter profile.
2. Twinfulence: a simple tool using the Twitter API to to measure the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus.
   
3. TweetStats helps you graph your Twitter Stats including: Tweets per hour; Tweets per month; Tweet timeline; Reply statistics
   
4. TwitGraph analyzes your tweets and presents the data in pie-chart form
   
5. Twitstat - Real time Twitter Analytics
   
6. Twitter Quotient will get your Twitter stats (# friends, #updates) and calculate your Twitter profile standing
7. Twist - see trends in twitter in comparison line chart format
   
8. Tweetrush is a service that aims to provide estimated stats on Twitter usage over a period of time via many attractive bar charts
   
9. Twitter meter let's you query an index of all the words that have been sent to twitter's public timeline (since late 2007) and plot the number of times that word was used over time.
   
10. TweetVolume is a useful tool for tracking the usage volume, of specific keywords or phrases, in the twit-osphere
    

rss2twitter.com - Dead simple solution for adding a feed to twitter

rss2twitter.com: "With RSS 2 Twitter any RSS feed can now be twittered. Want to subscribe to any blog and have it go to your phone? Easy - Just setup a twitter account, log in here with that username and password and then add some feeds and that account will twitter away to the tune of your feed."

Just login with your twitter account, add your RSS feeds, and there you go.