Twitter-nomics

As I wrote previously, I’ve spent time exploring the Twitterverse over recent weeks. Micro-blogging is an art form, I’ve decided, but more on that idea another time.

Today’s uh-huh moment comes from Twittercounter, a service that give you statistics on anyone’s twitter subscribers. Yours truly still hasn’t hit the big-time because unlike many of my peers, I maintain a tight, select, or if you like elite list of followers. So we’re talking hundreds, not thousands of fans following our every thought.

But yesterday’s technical glitch meant Twitter wiped more than a hundred of my subscribers away. Today, they’re apparently back and the list keeps growing. Here’s what’s interesting – Twitter is now in the business of predicting subscriber growth. I’m growing at an average rate of three people per day as this chart illustrates.

But you’ve got to wonder about other possibilities for dissecting Twitter data. The other well-known Twitter data mining tool is summize, recently bought out by Twitter and simply turned into Twitter search.

Tools like buzznumbers are already parsing this data to take advantage of all the obvious marketing, product positioning and PR applications you can imagine. So, we’re in a world where live conversations are not only tracked, but the widespread accessibility of conversation analytics will become part of business. It’s at this point privacy advocates throw their hands up in the air and run around in circles waving frantically…