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Microsoft's PR agency releases Twitter trend-tracking tool
All about Microsoft —
PR firm launches Twendz: A Twitter trend analyzer
Webware.com —
... Normally, PR firms are pitching us start-ups, not creating them. That's not the case with Twendz, a new Twitter tool from the folks at Waggener Edstrom. It pulls in the latest tweets on any given topic, and shows you what the overall user sentiment is, be it ...
Twendz: A Twitter trend analyzer
textually.org —
Twendz is a Twitter mining Web application that utilizes the power of Twitter Search, highlighting conversation themes and sentiment of the tweets that talk about topics you are interested in. ...
4 Ways Companies Use Twitter for Business
ReadWriteWeb —
... Recently, Microsoft's PR agency released their Twitter trend-tracking service to the public. Called Twendz, this tool goes beyond simple Twitter searches to also track sentiment, as well. ...
7 Top Twitter Topic Trackers
ReadWriteWeb —
... Twendz: Created by marketing firm Waggener Edstrom, Twendz is just a nice, clean Twitter search utility that supports a waterfall result and advanced search term constructions. ...
Twitter 101: 7 Ways to Make Better Sense of Twitter
Friedbeef's Tech —
... This is a free service which lets you track multiple keywords in multiple columns, and it streams in any mention of them in real time. Which means you can essentially set up a tracker for you and your competition in a jiffy. If you’re looking at tracking tools, you can also try twendz, and ...
FTD’s Mother’s Day Mishap
TechCrunch —
... actual, real florist on the telephone.”
“Calling FTD…mothers day flowers that were not delivered….”
“FTD had two days to get RA’s mom her mothers day flowers and they FAILED. I am SO waiting this 15 minute hold time to rip someone a new one.”
“FTD resolution was terrible; solution to missed Mother’s day flowers;send flowers tomorrow & discount the service charge!”
We did a sentiment analysis of tweets about FTD’s brand using Twendz, ...
It’s iPhone Day: How’s the Palm Pre Holding Up?
Mashable! —
... I spent some time watching the terms “iPhone” and “Palm Pre” scroll through the Twitter sentiment engine Twendz this afternoon, and the good news for Palm is that tweets about the Pre were generally as positive as those about the iPhone (though take sentiment analysis with a large helping of salt). ...
Iran Tweeting Shows Need for New Analytics
Internet Evolution: —
... released a free beta version of Twendz , an online application that not only can search Twitter for specific subjects, but also estimates the percentage of Tweets that are positive, negative, or neutral about a subject. Twendz examines keywords in Tweets and compares them to a database of thousands of words associated with emotions. It's an interesting way, for example, to help a business determine the good, the bad, and the ugly about its products and services. It seems sort of like Whuffie's reputation score! But what about evaluating an individual's Tweeting ...
Advice on Managing SMB Online Reputations
Screenwerk —
... A Google alert can automatically inform you when your business is mentioned in a review, blog or online publication. Some review sites have features that automatically send e-mail alerts to business owners when a review is posted.
Twitter is becoming an increasingly popular microblogging platform for businesses and customers and you can keep track of what is being said about your company with tools like search.twitter.com, TweetDeck, or Twendz.
Claim your listing on the local search sites.
Responding to reviews is a ...
How Does the Web Feel? Evri's New Sentiment API Tells You
ReadWriteWeb —
... At first we thought Evri's API would simply rank things as positive or negative, much like the Twitter tracker twendz does today, highlighting positive, negative, and neutral items. However, the sentiment API does so much more, allowing you deeper insight into the "who's," and "what's," and "why's" associated with the particular expression or feeling. ...
5 Ways Sentiment Analysis is Ramping Up in 2009
ReadWriteWeb —
... has been accelerating on the back of the Real-time Web - and Twitter in particular. Sentiment analysis is no short-term hot trend. It will eventually become a key feature of search engines, which will integrate the aggregate sentiment of the crowd into search results.
The NY Times article looked at 3 sentiment analysis tools: Scout Labs, The Financial Times' Newssift, and Jodange. It also mentioned 3 Twitter apps: Tweetfeel, Twendz and Twitrratr. In our post we take a look at five other examples of how sentiment ...
Tweeting By Numbers: 7 Ways to Become a Twitter Analyst
Mashable! —
... For a very basic breakdown of what people really think and feel as they tweet, you can tap sentiment tracking tools like Twendz. The site works like a real-time Twitter search engine, so when you start your query, you trigger Twendz to start analyzing the tweets that flow in and automatically parse them into three categories: red (negative), white (neutral), and green (positive). ...
Identify Any Website's Sentiment with ContextSense
ReadWriteWeb —
... for the Web?
That being said, we like the concept behind ConextSense and its simple interface (type a URL, click a button!). However, it goes to show you that contextual sentiment analysis is still very much a new and struggling technology with loads of room for improvement.
To date, there are only few companies providing solutions. Recent examples of publicly available tools include Evri's sentiment engine as well as Twitter trackers twendz, Twitrratr, and Tweetfeel. Other companies, like San Francisco-based Scout ...
HOW TO: Measure Social Media ROI
Mashable! —
... is where sentiment analysis is interesting. Sentiment is also a useful baseline to look at before implementing or changing a social media strategy and calculating your ROI.
We’ve written a lot about different sentiment analysis tools for Twitter and here are some highlights:
Viral Heat — Viral Heat is an affordable social media monitoring service that includes a sentiment breakdown for Twitter mentions.
Twendz — Twendz is a very basic real-time Twitter ...
Sentiment Analysis: How Do People Feel About You On Twitter? [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network —
... twendz is certainly the best free tool that I used, which isn’t really surprising since it was created by ...
5 Hot Social Shopping Trends to Watch For
Mashable! —
... , Twendz, or any other number of “real-time” search engines and you get an up-to-the-minute streaming snapshot of buyer sentiment. Where we once had to search and decipher reviews on product review sites or on specific retailers’ sites, now we simply watch as others do the hard work for us. ...
