The folks over at TweetVOLUME have produced a tool for counting the mentions of words or phrases on the Twitter micro-blogging platform.
I thought that it would be an interesting, though not especially significant, metric for comparing open source projects.
The graph above shows the number of twits in which Zenoss, Nagios, Hyperic, OpenNMS or MRTG were mentioned according to the TweetVolume algorithm.
The graph once again shows that Nagios is ahead of everybody. The rest are too close to draw any meaningful conclusions.
You can experiment yourself. Enjoy!
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Interesting metric Jack. I think that it’s a long ways away before we start looking at Twitter to measure popularity especially at those numbers. I am more interested in the Tweet Volume as a cool tool on top of Twitter. I saw another neat Twitter tool last week called Tweet Peek – http://www.twitterpeek.com that collates all the tweets for a specified group. That would be interesting to track all open source management companies/projects as a whole. I’ll try to set one up in my “free” time.
@Mark – I agree, I think the tool is more interesting than the data in this instance. Nagios & twitter would seem to bear out that if you’re in early enough you’re pretty tough to overhaul. I can’t think of anything that has been less reliable than twitter…doesn’t seem to have done it any harm though.
@Jack – I do agree it’s great fun. For example, I like to Google Fight. To your point about Nagios, I’ll even take my lumps here (for now):
http://tinyurl.com/2vn6vq