Backtweets

March 11th, 2009

One of the best — and worst — aspects of a URL shortener is that it hides the identity of the original link. Because of this, it was nearly impossible to find out who was Tweeting a Chicago Tribune (or any site) link unless “Chicago Tribune” was mentioned in the Tweet.

Well, that’s no longer an issue.

Backtweets provides a simple, but brilliant function: It allows you to search users who have Tweeted your URL on Twitter — even if it was transformed into a shortened URL. I don’t know if it can search ALL shortened links, but I have seen it list is.gd, tinyurl.com, bit.ly, ff.im, tr.im and others.

(Photo courtesy cambodia4kidsorg)

Entry Filed under: Twitter

Daniel Honigman

<a href="http://www.oldmedianewtricks.c..."BackTweets is a great tool. I recommend that everyone who's on Twitter to promote a site and/or specific content should use it regularly.

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