Twingly – Social Data with Passion

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On Wednesday we revealed Twingly Insight, blog analytics for professionals. Matti Palm works at the Swedish PR agency Greenhill Relations and had the chance to try Insight before the public launch. We have asked him a couple of question about his first impressions, why blog analytics are important and who can benefit from them the most.

Who are you and what are you working with?
My name is Matti Palm, I’m PR consultant with a background in journalism and media analytics. Together with my colleagues I run Greenhill Relations, a PR and communications agency with a clear focus on social media consultancy.

At Greenhill you have been doing blog analytics for a while now in cooperation with Twingly. Why do you think that is important?
The blogosphere is complex and consists of several different clusters of blogs, for example political blogs, fashion blogs or tech blogs. Without a deep analysis you don’t know which blogs are the leading ones and which are those that everybody else listens to.

On Wednesday Twingly launched Insight and you already had the chance to try it. What do you think about the tool?
I love statistics, thus I naturally see a lot of value in Insight. But Insight isn’t only for statistic geeks. Twingly is the only player which has raw data about blogs which reaches many months back into the past, which is a requirement for being able to create meaningful blog analytics.

How do you at Greenhill use Twingly Insight and the information you gather?
In our eyes the best way to start with a new client is with an extensive analysis. In the cases when that is possible the analysis creates a solid basis to work with during upcoming years and a shared understanding about the status quo and what needs to be done.

How do you think Insight will help companies and who can benefit the most from using the service?
I hope people will try to gain answers to real questions when looking at the stats, instead of only using it to see whether their own activities paid off and to get key metrics. In my eyes the best start would be concrete questions like “What are we going to accomplish if we start a blog” and “Which role will our blog play within the existing blog landscape”. With Twingly Insight you can get answers to those questions. Those who will benefit from Insight the most are information and communication professionals at companies and PR agencies, but also planners working at advertising agencies as well as customer support representatives.

Twingly and Greenhill will together hold courses on how to do a blog analysis (in Swedish only). Can you tell us a bit more about this initiative and who should participate?
Yes this will be a lot of fun! Our goal is to help people to get started and succeed with the analysis. But we’ll also discuss a lot about how to use the data you gather. Information and communication professionals as well as PR consultants are our main target group, but I hope we will be able to attract even other people interested in or working with the field of blog analytics and social media.

Here you can read more about the courses (in Swedish).

How do you personally think the blogosphere will evolve in the next years? Will people blog more or less?
I’m not sure if they will blog more or less. But blogs are really the core of social media and will continue to be so. Think about it: There is nothing better to tweet than then link to your latest blog post.