TwitterCounter

Twitter Counter is an analytics service for Twitter. It provides statistics of Twitter usage, and also offers a variety of widgets and buttons that people can add to their blogs, websites or social network profiles to show recent Twitter visitors and number of followers.

History

Twitter Counter started as a self funded startup based in Amsterdam, Netherlands on June 12, 2008.[1] It is a third party application and the Twitter name is licensed from Twitter, Inc.

Acquisitions

The service has received some attention in the past for acquiring Qwitter[2] and Twitaholic,[3] a competing company.

References

  1. ↑ Ernst-Jan, Pfauth (June 12, 2008). "Twittercounter: Feedburner for Twitter". The Next Web.
  2. ↑ Robin, Wauters (April 20, 2011). "Remember Qwitter? They Were Just Acquired By TwitterCounter For $11,111". Techcrunch.
  3. ↑ Schroeder, Stan (February 4, 2011). "Twitter Counter Acquires Popular Twitter Stats Provider Twitaholic". Mashable.
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