There are dozens-hundreds?-of Twitter statistical applications, but they all fail.
The presumption with every statistical program is the username being tracked is a new name, but in my reincarnated Twitter example, I have a new name that is the same as an older name-and the applications assume I never changed.
For instance, Tweet Stats shows me this graph:
...but if it was accurate, it would have started September 30, not the dawn of mankind.
Ditto for these Twitter Counter numbers:
And this FollowCost data:
Other statistical applications show similar data. I didn't click through all of them to compare and contrast, but at least my daily Twitter graph is where it should be, indicating how little I am tweeting these days:
Not only is Twitter rank meaningless, so too are the stats behind the ranks.
-- Thanks for reading Proof Why Twitter Statistical Applications Fail at AriWriter
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