You need to specify the timeframe ON THE FRONT PAGE of this so you won't get thousands of people asking the same question. Cant believe you havent done this yet.
Hi there, I am writing an article where I am including TweetVolume as a recommended social media keyword research tool. What I would like to know is whether your search information is based on Twitter's entire tweet history or only a select portion - and if a portion what that portion would be.
Thank you, please reply ASAP as I have to send the article in for print.
Oh and nice app :-) If only I could click on each result and see a combination of the actual conversations to see the context of the keyword use...
What about hashtags? I looked-up a couple of hashtags that I know exist, but it counts zero (though if I remove the # the string shows-up). Eg. #ang=0 but ang=92K+
on Mon Jun 15 2009
Nemal Patel said:
How exactly does this volume measurement work...is it based on results within the past "x" hours, past "x" days/months? In other words, how recently and what time span do the measurements include?
I haven't heard back, so here's another example: Put in Social Media, Social, Media in three different boxes. SInce Social Media would require, presumably that it have both social and media in the tweet, you'd expect social and media individually to render tons more than the words together. Nope - both are less. What's up?
Hi,
I'd like more info about how this tool pulls its data. I used it to search Good Sam Club and it came out with 76,400 as the volume for whatever period it is for (I'm unsure how to tell period). I thought that was high and I did Good, Sam, and Club separate and got a huge number of $25 million for Good alone. So I concluded it couldn't be just a sum of the individual words. BUT - then I also did just Sam Club and I figured it would be over 76,400 because it had to include all of the Good Sam Club listings, right? Wrong - it was a less than 25,000. So I don't understand if the original 76,000 is valid or not.
Next, If somehow it is valid, then is it the number of posts that contain "Good Sam Club" as a whole phrase? or is it the number of posts that contain Good + Sam + Club within the body of the post?
We are working on an updated version of tweetvolume that will include the ability to define time periods, as well as improving the site and adding features; as well as addressing questions on this comment form.
We already have our beta working, so expect something sooner rather than later!
What period of time is covered by the count you show? Is it for today, this week, this month, this year or inception to date. I would love to track a keyword day by day and graph it over a period of time.
It seems really obvious, but since so many people are asking the same question about time frame, why don't you just put that information on the search page?
I see that I can determine how many times "streamserve" has been mentioned on Twitter, but can I determine these findings by date. For example, how many times was my company mentioned in tweets in the month of May?
I like the tool, and i just wanted to ask a few questions regarding the data.
What time period does it refer to? Does it just measure volume of mentions of particular keywords on twitter? Is it global volume? Will you be looking to make a realise where you can select your time period?
Loving the twitter world, like the tool, keep up the good work.
It seems all this site does is search google using the site:twitter.com paremeter and gets the total search results. I test 4 terms and they all matched the google results to the number.
So all the people asking WHAT TIME FRAME.. i don't think there is really on, its all time since twitter started or as long as the specific tweets stay in googles index.
Its not a bad solution, its simple, but would be nice to use a more recent timeframe.
What is included in the number that appears after doing a volume search? Is it the number of times the word(s) appear per day, week, or ever on Twitter and Google? Just want to understand the counts a bit more. Thank you!
The time-frame is the length of time twitter has been around. The results are each an estimated (not by us!) count of the number of times a word or phrase has appeared in a Twitter post. We do this by simply asking Google. We actually have a version of the site that returns the most relevant posts from Twitter but because of Twitter's down time of late that feature is pretty darn slow(!) and won't be rolled out until they are once again running smoothly. Some day we hope to have some free time to make some improvements and updates to this site, but we're too busy right now trying to pay the bills with real work. Thanks for sticking with us.
What is the time frame for the twitter volume search? We thought it was cumulative from the beginning of twitter to now, but in searching and making comparisons that is certainly not the case. Please let me know as we are trying to track amounts of what people say about our products.
I'm using TweetVolume for a little social media research, and I was wondering what unit of measurement the results are in. For example, about 98,000 for "coke" would represent the number of keyword mentions per month?
Would be interesting to be able to see volume within specified date ranges or month on month data to evaluate effectiveness of social media activities. I think measurement and ROI are key factors in spreading the word about social media sites and their effectiveness for businesses, and I think tweetvolume has the potential to help fill that need.
Molly copied a post from Will saying that the date range is from Twitter's inception, but I've done identical searches separated by a month and come up with lower results in the later search, which would be impossible if it's cumulative.
I love your site, great job....clean,simple,love the bar graph. Don't change a thing, I appreciate your site and you have done a stellar job. That being said, I have one little question: Are the numbers supposed to represent 30 days? or monthly volume that is. And I'm assuming this is strictly Twitter search volume. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
I am a medical researcher writing a piece on the many uses of Twitter for mental health. I was wondering if you could allow me to run a search with four different emoticons :), :(, :):), :(:(.
Let me know at your earliest convenience. Many thanks.
Carlos Rizo MD PhD (Candidate)
carlosrizo@gmail.com
Just wondering what the time period is for looking up words/phrases on TweetVolume. Is this based on All tweets that exist? Or does this chart only tweets created during a certain time period?
Thank you,
Molly Stafford
Manger, Strategic Research
Spark Communications
molly.stafford@sparksmg.com
Is there a way of knowing what time period you're looking at? Is it all time? Could I run this every Monday and get a difference for new tweets in a week about a certain keyword?
Is there a way of knowing what time period you're looking at? Is it all time? Could I run this every Monday and get a difference for new tweets in a week about a certain keyword?
XEN GlobalTech is a full spectrum Global Software outsourcing company, Experts in Mobile Applications, Web 2.O Application, Software Product Development, RFID Service, Location based service, Enterprise Application Integration, GPS and NFC Technology
Great site, many thanks. I would be very interested to know more about your company and perhaps discuss opportunities for mutual collaboration.
Best,
Carlos
What time period does this cover - past 24 hours, 48?
How do you gather this data?
When you enter multiple terms in one box, is the term searched specifically, or a combination of the words, etc?
What exactly are these numbers telling me? How do I know this is accurate?
What does Google have to do with this?
You might wanna nominate TweetVolume for our Open Web Awards, to make sure it gets through to the voting rounds:
http://tinyurl.com/6o838z
Cheers!
on Fri Nov 07 2008
Peggie said:
To accurately track a website do I need the "www"? Could it be Google.com or would that include all URLs that have google.com in them - ex: ILoveGoogle.com?
If everybody looks through the history of comments you will see that "Will" is the creator of this site and has answered a lot of questions within this string. The most common question is "what is the date range" to which he has answered multiple times it is from the launch of twitter (march 2001) until now.
Will - great job on this site, it is very useful and will help companies gain insight into the social media landscape they are trying desperately to better understand. I agree with many others what would be extremely useful is the ability to better understand the context in which these words are being used. A drill down scenario would be really nice to have, but you could probably accomplish the same thing by providing the ability (and associated help) to do advanced searches (boolean operators, exclusions, etc).
Regards,
Chad Estes (chad@vitrue.com)
Senior Product Manager
Vitrue, Inc.
Their passion. Your brand.â„¢
Social media solutions for marketers, agencies and publishers.
comment:
the number for the phrase seems to change over time - in both directions. one count for the phrase 'twitter group' is 31200, another is 31500. hit refresh a few times and it will switch between the two - that is, it's not going only from a lower number to a higher number.
question: any plans to add a graphing component? it would be cool to see frequency over time.
Would like to include this in my article in The Information Advisor (www.informationadvisor.com) on the best and most interesting addons for Twitter.
Can you tell me:
1. who is behind this site?
2. when it was launched
3. how much of Twitter do you review for the charts (eg last 1,000 messages; last 3 months; today's Tweets, etc)
Thank you--Robert Berkman, Editor, The Information Advisor Rochester NY
Email: robertberkman@gmail.com
Would like to include this in my article in The Information Advisor (www.informationadvisor.com) on the best and most interesting addons for Twitter.
Can you tell me:
1. who is behind this site?
2. when it was launched
3. how much of Twitter do you review for the charts (eg last 1,000 messages; last 3 months; today's Tweets, etc)
Thank you--Robert Berkman, Editor, The Information Advisor Rochester NY
I'm new, and despite being considered a rather with it kinda gal---I can't figure out what I'm doing! I typed in writer, first draft, novel---and found lots of matches...but how can I get TO them?
My name is Mike Sasaki and I work for OuterJoin, Inc., which is an all inclusive online marketing firm. I'm also the founder of RecipeMatcher (www.recipematcher.com). I started working with OuterJoin a year ago and they created and maximized RecipeMatcher's online presence. RecipeMatcher has been on Techcrunch, Mashable, Lifehacker, Centernetworks, Killer Startups, the BBC and many local talk shows and newspapers. I joined OuterJoin as an employee because I saw firsthand how great the online marketing services are. At OuterJoin, I'm responsible for creating a new network of 100 websites/startups. Each website/startup that is a member of this network will receive a package of online services for a significantly reduced price (including access to my media contact list). I understand that keeping costs low when starting up is crucial. I'd love the opportunity to speak with you. Please feel free to contact me at anytime.
Best regards,
Mike Sasaki
Director
OuterJoin (www.ojoin.com)
mksasaki@ojoin.com
Fantastic job, this is incredibly insightful. Some quick questions:
1. What's the date range for all tweets it is pulling?
2. Is there a ceiling on number of values returned?
3. Just confirming - this is pulling from the public timeline, and not from users an account is subscribed to, right?
Cool toy to see what people are putting out there. What is the time interval for the results? Are these number the hits on terms for the last hour, day week?
Just wanted to say that I recently discovered this site by accident and although it's use is fairly simple, it gives the user a chance to look into the mysterious world of Twitter to uncover trends. Although the Twitter userbase makes up a small portion of the Internet, it is quite entertaining to figure out what the GENERAL interests are within the community. For instance, Coffee appears over 15,000 times while Tea appears only 5,000 times and Water only appears 3,920 times. Therefor, it is safe to assume that the majority of Twitter users are coffee drinkers. It's also interesting to note that the word Lunch appears over 17,000 times which is the highest amount when compared with other times of the day. So now we know what workers are really doing on their lunch breaks :P
If I had one suggestion, it would be to somehow someway include the actual Twitter message or messages that included the searched term. This set of results could also be complimented by the username who created the message and then the username could link to their Twitter page. I'm not sure if you can do this because I figure it would produce quite a bit of strain on the server considering all of the Twitter queries that would be performed but I still think it would be cool to see.
This is a cool service you guys have developed and so far it has taken up at least an hours worth of my time and I'm sure it will take up many more. Keep up the good work.
on Sat Jun 09 2007
Spanky said:
What would really be great would be to see the top 5 words used as the default (excluding short words, like under 4 letters). Also adding an "ALL" feature, that allows you to search how many posts contain ALL of the words you entered.
Nice work.
I saw 121000 for "http://" will it be possible to know the links ?
Links classified by popularity , for exemple http://tweetvolume.com : 120999 ... ;-)
Thanks Melody,
We planned on doing that all along. But Since Twitter has been running slow recently we thought we'd wait. Now that it looks like things are going better over in Twitterland we'll get back to it. It may take us a little while - since this is a side project. Stay tuned and thanks again for your suggestion.
Jeff
Re pikamookie, clicky and Prout (and everyone else who's had this problem):
I just wanted to apologize about the "changing results" phenomenon that some of you have experienced. There was a scalability issue that was leading to a data overwrite problem that was completely my fault! It should be resolved now. If anyone continues to have this problem please let me know.
on Fri Jun 01 2007
Mark said:
WHAT DOES IT DO !!!!!!111!!!!!1111 i don't get it.....
on Fri Jun 01 2007
Prout said:
Why do the results change ?
Try for example a test with 5 words. And try again a few seconds later : resluts change...isn't weird ?
on Fri Jun 01 2007
Ben said:
Great idea! Very much like the "SROM" (Sucks/Rules-o-Meter) from years ago, but more dynamic.
My only complaint is that there's no way to examine the results being counted. It'd be nice if I could click on one of the search terms and be taken to a "search results" page for that word.
Here's why: Sometimes I get a lot of hits for something and I don't know why. For example, there are ton more people twittering about "Macs" than "Windows". Could it be because people are talking a lot about eating Big Macs? There's no way to tell without the context.
This was a problem with the original Sucks/Rules-o-Meter. For example, it showed that "emacs rules" was a much less common phrase than "vi rules" and concluded that the vi text editor was superior. However, if you looked at the actual search results, you'd see that people were using "vi" as a Roman numeral!
The data seems to be changing by the seconds. I typed in ufc, mma, fights, bj penn, and couture and they all changed numbers and ranks relative to each other. A few times UFC is higher than mma but then ten seconds later, mma was 2000 higher!
Duane Schau,
if you're using Live Messenger and have the "Messenger Plus! Live" plugin installed, there's a script that can be added so you can update your twitter status using any open conversation window.
hope it helps till they get their own twitter bot.
download Messenger Plus, Live!: http://www.msgpluslive.net/download/
the twitter scipt: http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/view/273-Twitter-Plus/
Hello. If you would like to create a link with your search terms, you can email a link to the chart by using the "Send this chart to a Friend" section of the site, or you can create the link by hand. For example, this is a link to a chart for the words "excited", "sad", "happy" and "airplane":
how about the gap. the results are base on hours? on days? on last minutes? can i search when i a timeframe some word was said by someone? or how this word was positionated in the last week everyday?
Re clicky's comment: I'm not experiencing the data changing on repeated searches. Could you send me some example searches to take a look at? If you or others continue to have this problem we'll definitely look into it. Thanks.
Re Carl Weaver & Mike: The time-frame is the length of time twitter has been around. The results are each an estimated (not by me!) count of the number of times a word or phrase has appeared in a Twitter post. I do this by simply asking Google. I actually have a version of the site that returns the most relevant posts from Twitter but because of Twitter's down time of late that feature is pretty darn slow(!) and won't be rolled out until they are once again running smoothly.
Re Fernando: There is a way to pass search phrases. I built this feature for the "Send this chart to a Friend!" feature. Just try passing this URL for example:
http://www.tweetvolume.com/index.php?search_phrases=fun,happy,talk,yeah
your tool here says it tells how often a phrase appears in Twitter. In what timeframe is that? I don't know how to interpret the information, unless it is used only in comparison to others.
It would be nice if the submit to the form were a GET instead of a POST, so we could have URLs with the results of the search.
Nice job!
on Sat May 26 2007
clicky said:
I refresh the page (same words), and the graph changes drastically... explain? It seems it doesn't reflect any real data... and what's the mention of google about?
nice gadget. Looks like you have an unofficial api by passing comma delimited search terms in param search_phrases, right? You should build a little tool to tinyurl or dwarfurl those and twitter them, like http://twitter.com/cori/statuses/78831632
on Fri May 25 2007
Josh said:
I am a Twitter addict. Tweet Volume is such a fun website to use because I am able to search different terms to see how other people are communicating on Twitter. This is awesome! Thanks Wowza!
Thank you, please reply ASAP as I have to send the article in for print.
Oh and nice app :-) If only I could click on each result and see a combination of the actual conversations to see the context of the keyword use...
Is there a way to determine if tweet volume is positive or negative?
thank you,
Laura
thanks
janet@strobepromo.com
Many thanks!
Regan
I'd like more info about how this tool pulls its data. I used it to search Good Sam Club and it came out with 76,400 as the volume for whatever period it is for (I'm unsure how to tell period). I thought that was high and I did Good, Sam, and Club separate and got a huge number of $25 million for Good alone. So I concluded it couldn't be just a sum of the individual words. BUT - then I also did just Sam Club and I figured it would be over 76,400 because it had to include all of the Good Sam Club listings, right? Wrong - it was a less than 25,000. So I don't understand if the original 76,000 is valid or not.
Next, If somehow it is valid, then is it the number of posts that contain "Good Sam Club" as a whole phrase? or is it the number of posts that contain Good + Sam + Club within the body of the post?
Please advise.
We are working on an updated version of tweetvolume that will include the ability to define time periods, as well as improving the site and adding features; as well as addressing questions on this comment form.
We already have our beta working, so expect something sooner rather than later!
Thanks for your patronage!
It would be helpful to have this chart along with a time frame?
Thanks
I like the tool, and i just wanted to ask a few questions regarding the data.
What time period does it refer to? Does it just measure volume of mentions of particular keywords on twitter? Is it global volume? Will you be looking to make a realise where you can select your time period?
Loving the twitter world, like the tool, keep up the good work.
Thanks,
Stewart
@stewarthunteruk
Example: http://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Atwitter.com+Michael+Ignatieff
So all the people asking WHAT TIME FRAME.. i don't think there is really on, its all time since twitter started or as long as the specific tweets stay in googles index.
Its not a bad solution, its simple, but would be nice to use a more recent timeframe.
Thanks
Bob
I don't see the answer here. Thanks for Feedback!
Thanks,
Debra
Could organic,creative non-techies be cordoned off into their own field?
I'm using TweetVolume for a little social media research, and I was wondering what unit of measurement the results are in. For example, about 98,000 for "coke" would represent the number of keyword mentions per month?
Thanks for getting back to me,
Kyle Wiebalk
kyle.wiebalk@gmail.com
thanks!
Doug
I am a medical researcher writing a piece on the many uses of Twitter for mental health. I was wondering if you could allow me to run a search with four different emoticons :), :(, :):), :(:(.
Let me know at your earliest convenience. Many thanks.
Carlos Rizo MD PhD (Candidate)
carlosrizo@gmail.com
hoping you have time to answer questions like this...
matthew
artdamage00@yahoo.ca
"Re: Date Range questions.
The date range is simply from the birth of Twitter until now. So I guess that from around March of 2001 up until today."
Suggestion for the site - perhaps an FAQ section answering this and other questions.
Thanks!
Just wondering what the time period is for looking up words/phrases on TweetVolume. Is this based on All tweets that exist? Or does this chart only tweets created during a certain time period?
Thank you,
Molly Stafford
Manger, Strategic Research
Spark Communications
molly.stafford@sparksmg.com
This is an amazing application. Tweet volume is extremely useful for getting the "pulse" of twitter in terms of how much buzz something is generating.
How did you create this application? It's amazing.
Regards,
Leland
I was just wondering what time frame this covers...?
Please reply at veronica.rosso@theconversationgroup.com
Thanks!
I was just wondering what time frame this covers...?
Thanks!
Though I have a question: What time period does this cover? 24 hours?
payamc@gmail dot com
especially regarding the time frame of the data posted.
thanks!
please respond to andreaz@zaaz.com - thanks!
Best,
Carlos
Is it possible to scope searches to a particular time frame -- say, volume over the last six months (vs. the beginning of time)?
LOVE this service, by the way.
Derek Gordon
djg2theworld@yahoo.com
415-335-1724
great great tool thank you
I wanna know, Which period tweetvolume track? 24 past hours?
If u can answer by mail, I'll be thankful.
Regards, Leandro
How do you gather this data?
When you enter multiple terms in one box, is the term searched specifically, or a combination of the words, etc?
What exactly are these numbers telling me? How do I know this is accurate?
What does Google have to do with this?
You might wanna nominate TweetVolume for our Open Web Awards, to make sure it gets through to the voting rounds:
http://tinyurl.com/6o838z
Cheers!
Thanks!
Will - great job on this site, it is very useful and will help companies gain insight into the social media landscape they are trying desperately to better understand. I agree with many others what would be extremely useful is the ability to better understand the context in which these words are being used. A drill down scenario would be really nice to have, but you could probably accomplish the same thing by providing the ability (and associated help) to do advanced searches (boolean operators, exclusions, etc).
Regards,
Chad Estes (chad@vitrue.com)
Senior Product Manager
Vitrue, Inc.
Their passion. Your brand.â„¢
Social media solutions for marketers, agencies and publishers.
Thanks,
Thanks
myTmedia
There are some good questions in the list below - where can I find answers?
the number for the phrase seems to change over time - in both directions. one count for the phrase 'twitter group' is 31200, another is 31500. hit refresh a few times and it will switch between the two - that is, it's not going only from a lower number to a higher number.
question: any plans to add a graphing component? it would be cool to see frequency over time.
thanks.
dmckinnon@sicolamartin.com
thanks...
I'd really appreciate it if you could drop me an email with the answer: sarah.saline@gmail.com
Thanks!
Can you tell me:
1. who is behind this site?
2. when it was launched
3. how much of Twitter do you review for the charts (eg last 1,000 messages; last 3 months; today's Tweets, etc)
Thank you--Robert Berkman, Editor, The Information Advisor Rochester NY
Email: robertberkman@gmail.com
Can you tell me:
1. who is behind this site?
2. when it was launched
3. how much of Twitter do you review for the charts (eg last 1,000 messages; last 3 months; today's Tweets, etc)
Thank you--Robert Berkman, Editor, The Information Advisor Rochester NY
I found your site & I can't work out what 'often' means. For example, I put in genius & it returned the answer 4610.
Does that mean 4610 times ever? or does that mean 4610 times in the last week - & is that Google or Twitter?
thanks & best
James
+44 7782 198 882
Embarrassed and obtuse,
Miz_B
Great site – very useful.
Suggestion: would love to see a permalink button so I can copy a link rather than emailing it.
Thanks,
Dan
Would be nice to have a hyperlink to the underlying search results. So a click of the term leads to a query result.
Neat idea, thanks for doing the legwork
Best regards,
Mike Sasaki
Director
OuterJoin (www.ojoin.com)
mksasaki@ojoin.com
I wanted to answer some of the questions here quick.
Re: Date Range questions.
The date range is simply from the birth of Twitter until now. So I guess that from around March of 2001 up until today.
Re: David Berkowitz
Right now all of the data that you're seeing is all of the data we have.
Re: Eric
2. No there isn't a ceiling. To allow that, all graph data is displayed relative to itself.
3. This only pulls public data.
Re: Adam Denison
We actually built a version that does just that. We've just been a little bit too busy to roll it out.
1. What's the date range for all tweets it is pulling?
2. Is there a ceiling on number of values returned?
3. Just confirming - this is pulling from the public timeline, and not from users an account is subscribed to, right?
I typed in "mtv" and your site comes back with 1,120 however when I do a google for "mtv" and restrict the site to twitter.com I get 1,190 results.
Is there a feature in the API to lookups "mentions" of a phrase?
Results begin from which date?
I found out that this works:
http://www.tweetvolume.com/?search_phrases=diner,breakfast,lunch,snack,
but it doesn't survive TinyURL-ing. Can you make it easy to share a url? (For maximum viral effect)
Hope this helps.
Michiel
great application I found via Steve Rubel - it's quite interesting to see if people are writing about topics of your interest :)
Did Google determine special conditions for your widget to squeeze information out of their database?
If I had one suggestion, it would be to somehow someway include the actual Twitter message or messages that included the searched term. This set of results could also be complimented by the username who created the message and then the username could link to their Twitter page. I'm not sure if you can do this because I figure it would produce quite a bit of strain on the server considering all of the Twitter queries that would be performed but I still think it would be cool to see.
This is a cool service you guys have developed and so far it has taken up at least an hours worth of my time and I'm sure it will take up many more. Keep up the good work.
Very fun!
Nice work.
I saw 121000 for "http://" will it be possible to know the links ?
Links classified by popularity , for exemple http://tweetvolume.com : 120999 ... ;-)
Patrick
We planned on doing that all along. But Since Twitter has been running slow recently we thought we'd wait. Now that it looks like things are going better over in Twitterland we'll get back to it. It may take us a little while - since this is a side project. Stay tuned and thanks again for your suggestion.
Jeff
Jeff
Re pikamookie, clicky and Prout (and everyone else who's had this problem):
I just wanted to apologize about the "changing results" phenomenon that some of you have experienced. There was a scalability issue that was leading to a data overwrite problem that was completely my fault! It should be resolved now. If anyone continues to have this problem please let me know.
Try for example a test with 5 words. And try again a few seconds later : resluts change...isn't weird ?
My only complaint is that there's no way to examine the results being counted. It'd be nice if I could click on one of the search terms and be taken to a "search results" page for that word.
Here's why: Sometimes I get a lot of hits for something and I don't know why. For example, there are ton more people twittering about "Macs" than "Windows". Could it be because people are talking a lot about eating Big Macs? There's no way to tell without the context.
This was a problem with the original Sucks/Rules-o-Meter. For example, it showed that "emacs rules" was a much less common phrase than "vi rules" and concluded that the vi text editor was superior. However, if you looked at the actual search results, you'd see that people were using "vi" as a Roman numeral!
Still a cool app though!
if you're using Live Messenger and have the "Messenger Plus! Live" plugin installed, there's a script that can be added so you can update your twitter status using any open conversation window.
hope it helps till they get their own twitter bot.
download Messenger Plus, Live!: http://www.msgpluslive.net/download/
the twitter scipt: http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/view/273-Twitter-Plus/
Hello. If you would like to create a link with your search terms, you can email a link to the chart by using the "Send this chart to a Friend" section of the site, or you can create the link by hand. For example, this is a link to a chart for the words "excited", "sad", "happy" and "airplane":
http://www.tweetvolume.com/index.php?search_phrases=excited,sad,happy,airplane
Thanks!
Re Carl Weaver & Mike: The time-frame is the length of time twitter has been around. The results are each an estimated (not by me!) count of the number of times a word or phrase has appeared in a Twitter post. I do this by simply asking Google. I actually have a version of the site that returns the most relevant posts from Twitter but because of Twitter's down time of late that feature is pretty darn slow(!) and won't be rolled out until they are once again running smoothly.
Re Fernando: There is a way to pass search phrases. I built this feature for the "Send this chart to a Friend!" feature. Just try passing this URL for example:
http://www.tweetvolume.com/index.php?search_phrases=fun,happy,talk,yeah
http://www.brandvocal.com/1000heads/2007/05/tweetvolume.html
Nice job!
Hope you all like the site!