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by mrmaddog 4427 days ago
My personal account has had this for a few months, but my friendly twitter bot (@8ball_) still does not have access. Is there some sort of gatekeeping mechanism? The help page refers to twitter card analytics, but that is not helpful. It would be nice to roll my own statistics off of that CSV instead of relying on hodge podges of services like Wildfire (https://monitor.wildfireapp.com/count_reports/display?twitte...)

In any case, I'd love to see this roll out to more accounts: I think the information on engagement, follow:unfollow ratios and mentions over time are incredibly useful for creating more meaningful content (for businesses and automated services), though I am not convinced such behavior is good for individuals, and am curious whether access to a dashboard increases or decreases engagement.

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Hi, @lfcipriani from Twitter Platform Relations team. Twitter Cards Analytics is open for every account that has Twitter Cards installed (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards). It's a way to know how your content is shared on Twitter.

To install a Card you need to insert meta tags in your HTML page and get it validated in https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator. The approval is automatic.

Then, every tweet (from any person in the network) that includes a link from your website will expand a Card and engagements data will be collected in your dashboard.

More info: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/analytics

Seems like I'm not the only one that can't get access on-demand. For the curious, here is what the site looks like: http://cl.ly/image/0a3V1d2W1c3J (Each group of three lines in the top bar graph represents one day.) It also lets you know if your tweet attains an unusually high "reach" is: http://cl.ly/image/1p2X3b0x2X1S - which corresponds to the number of feeds your tweet showed up on via retweets.
working on it...