Chatterlytics

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Who? Patrick McCanna is the developer behind chatterlytics. Patrick is a security architect who has worked on products like Microsoft's Xbox Live & AT&T Mobility's wireless service offerings. He has combined his love of python, software development, social networking, metrics collection & memes to build this strange little tool.
   
   
2. What? We help you measure how much people are talking about interesting topics. Examples are The Public Option or Peppermint Mochas.
   
   
3. Why? We are skeptical about anyone who tells us what other people think. We've set out to find a neutral means of measuring what people are talking about in order to measure demand & opinion.
   
   As people express their opinions more and more using tools like Twitter, it becomes possible to scientifically measure what people are talking about.
   
   
4. How? We use the Twitter Search API to measure a phrase that's active on Twitter. We poll twitter at a rate that is appropriate to the popularity of your topic conversation. We cannot tell you about the conversation until we establish a trace, so if you're interested in tracking a topic immediately, you should head right over to Sales.