How-to Track Tweets and Followers of 175 of your closest friends

The beauty of this Excel Spreadsheet is that it builds a history on your computer of the count of Tweets and followers of up to 175 People.
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Refresh it as often as you like: hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly and track how active they are, and how their popularity is trending.
Each time it [...]

Twitter Friends and Followers – Comparing the Lists

One of the new Excel dashboards we released this week downloads the friends and followers of a given Twitter user, and then compares the two lists, generating a short list of friends that don’t follow and followers that aren’t friends. I have seen a number of blog articles that go into long discussions about how [...]

Batch updates of Excel web analytics dashboards

Next Analytics was already the best Excel add-in for automating your Google Analytics reporting, but with the release of version 3,1, we have included a Batch Scheduler and a Command Line Utility that take things to a whole new level of automation. And with 3.1, you can also get Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and even SQL [...]

Reading Twitter in Excel with Next Analytics

I was really disappointed this week when Hootsuite stopped telling me what Twitter messages were ‘new’ since the last time I looked. That was the number one reason I used it, and the Twitter interface is missing this valuable feature. Well, there were a few things that bugged me about both Hootsuite and even the [...]