A Twitter analytics cheat sheet

They’re finally here! Analytics straight from Twitter. Although they’re a little hidden, we’ve found them extremely useful for analyzing your Twitter marketing efforts.

Here’s a cheat sheet to get you up to speed:

First, log in to Twitter.com, and from your home page, click on your Settings drop-down menu. Then, click on Twitter Ads. Don’t worry—we aren’t actually looking at ads.

From there, Twitter will ask you to sign in again; that will take you to Twitter’s Ad pages, which will display any current advertising you’re doing with tweets.

To get to the good stuff, click on the Analytics drop-down menu on the black bar at the top. You should see three options: Timeline Activity, Followers, and websites. The first two are what we want to look at for analytics. Let’s check out Timeline Activity first.

This is the fun part. You can now see your Twitter mentions, follows, and unfollows for the past 30 days in the top graph…

… and how your recent tweets have been performing in the bottom chart.