altmetrics lite

The ever reliable Martin Hawksey has another classic blog post this morning, What do you get when you combine Twitter and Google Analytics in Google Spreadsheets with a bit of Google Apps Script?

Nice work. I had not realized that Twitter search resolves all shortened links to the original URL, so for yesterday's blog post, I get:

However, since Google+ has gone all hockeystick on me, I'm far more interested in that site these days. Searching for the post url there gives me:

and I can save the search on Google+ to tune into referrer traffic there in real time, thanking referrers and commenting or clarifying as need be. Nice tip :-)

Examples:

 SoTI: Twitter | Google+
 MicrobiologyBytes: Twitter | Google+
 AoB: Twitter | Google+

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