The coming year we’re already celebrating Twitter’s 7th birthday. In the last 6,5 years, Twitter has proved itself to be a valuable communication tool for companies, professionals and individuals. We can safely say it has become a permanent way of communication in our ever changing and connected world. People on Twitter are always able to stay up-to-date on new developments and their reach and public is still growing (200 million active users in December 2012).

At Twitter Counter we want to give you a similar up-to-date possibility regarding the Twitter stats of accounts you think are interesting. That’s why we are introducing two new features to enrich your Twitter Counter experience:

Buy-stats:
Want to see what’s been happening around a certain Twitter account? You can now purchase their statistics for a one-time fee of $29 and get everything we know in a neat and tidy CSV file.

The statistics you download include the number of tweets, followers and users followed, at a daily interval beginning from when we started tracking a certain user. Every now and then Twitter’s data is temporarily unavailable though, which cause small gaps in our statistics, so the statistics are based only on the amount of days for which we actually have received data. The completeness of the statistics you want to purchase is represented by the “Integrity” level of the statistics. For example, the integrity level of Lady Gaga’s (@ladygaga) stats is 84%, for Justin Bieber’s account (@justinbieber) it’s even 92%!

For who?

The buy-stats feature is for everyone who wants to stay up-do-date on the Twitter accounts they find interesting. We created this feature because we kept receiving a lot of requests from journalists and companies to see the full stats of certain Twitter accounts, to compare them to other accounts and to see how they performed over time. Also did we see an increase in requests when companies and/or persons have been featured in news items or on popular websites. Just press the button “Buy Stats” on your person of interest’s Twitter Counter page. After purchasing these one-time stats they are available for download for 30 days.

Tracking & Notifications
Next to the buy-stats feature we’re introducing another feature for those who want to stay updated on the Twitter accounts they find interesting.

When you visit the statistics page of an account on Twitter Counter you can now see a “Track” button. This button enables you to track the statistics of this certain account.

It also makes sure that we send you notifications when the account(s) you track reach certain Twitter milestones, like their followers and/or tweets count.

You can get these notifications via e-mail or even send to you in a Tweet if you like. You can specify your preferences per tracked account.

Next week, on Friday the 22nd of April to be exact, we’re going to change the prices of our Featured User subscriptions.

Over the years we have built Twitter Counter in to one of the top places to advertise your Twitter account. More than 4,587 people have already boosted their Twitter influence being a Featured User, and we’re still experiencing a huge growth in new subscribers. We’ve made many improvements to our service, ranging from daily limits, geo-targeting, to setting a start date for your campaign. Coupled with a large growth in visitors to our website, and expanding the Featured User service to our sister site Twitaholic, we feel that it is now time to change the prices.

New pricing structure for Featured User campaigns

Below are all the new prices for our Featured User campaigns. All prices are listed in US dollars.

I already have a Featured User subscription, do I need to pay more?

No. Users who currently have a subscription, or who purchase one before the 22nd of April, will keep paying what they paid when they signed up initially. There will be no price increase for them. This only affects new signups after the 22nd of April.

It’s too expensive!

We believe that we’re offering a fair price for our services. Over the years our service has been very successful for many users in gaining new Twitter followers. Check out some testimonials of past and present Featured Users.

We also want to take this opportunity to thank all of our past and present Featured Users. We couldn’t have achieved so much without your help and confidence in our service. It makes us proud to know that all of you have enjoyed a growth in followers, often growing more and more even after your subscription expired. We appreciate all the feedback you’ve given us over time which helped us make our offering to you better and better. We hope to provide all of you with a satisfied experience in the years going forward. Thank you everyone!

The Twitter Counter team

The last couple of weeks we have been working day and night building new great features for Twittercounter. One of these cool new features is the Premium User account. I can hear you thinking “What are Premium User accounts”?

Premium User accounts

Premium User accounts give you more insight into all of your behavior (and that of others) on Twitter. Think of how many @mentions you’ve received, or how many Retweets you’ve gotten. Or, for our Widget users, there will be even more insight in which Twitter visitors view your site. This, and more, will become available in our Premium User accounts. Less talk, more screenshots:

Want to know what happens to your Follower count on an hourly basis? It’s in there.

See how many @mentions you’ve gotten per day and what they said. For example:

This, and much, much more will become available in the new Premium User accounts. Would you like to know more?

What would you like to see as a Premium User? Let us know in the comments or send us a mention via Twitter (@TheCounter)

Yesterday, we rolled out this new feature to make Twittercounter even more accessible for all people and devices. So, for all you guys on the move, you can check now your Twittercounter stats from your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch, and you will see a image-only version of the graph, no Flash required. Check it out now!

Twittercounter on my iPad, yay!

These last weeks we have been working on new ways to give you better and more accurate statistics, and now we are proud to present you with an all new version of our Twitter widget. We have updated the interface and look and feel of the widget to make it more appealing to yourself and your visitors and we have included a lot new features to give you a better insight of your site’s visitors and the chance to communicate with them more easily. Check out the new widget here: http://twittercounter.com/pages/twitterwidget and get one for your site now!

Upgraded interface

We have tweaked the design and improving the interface, adding a cool scrolling view of all your recent visitors.

More filtering options

In the dashboard, you can now see the visitors of your site ordered by date, number of visits or number of followers. You can filter them by followers/non followers/following/not following, too!

DM your visitors

Get in contact with your visitors the easy way. Communicate with your most loyal visitors directly from the dashboard view.

Batch options

Follow, unfollow or send a DM to all your visitors at once, with one click.

New Map overview

Curious about where your Twitter visitors come from? Now you can know how many visitors visited you from different countries and who they are.

Go to http://twittercounter.com/pages/twitterwidget and get your widget now!

PS.

Did you know you can also embed graphs in blogposts? Here’s on of Lady Gaga: