Another reason to sign up with Ad.ly

Last week, I recommended Ad.ly as one of the two best ad networks for Twitter.

Now there’s a new reason to sign up with this growing site. You can now get “Twitter Analytics” via Ad.ly.

If you’re a blogger, you know how addictive it can be to check your “stats”: “How many people came to my blog today? Where did they come from?”

Get ready to get just as hooked on your Twitter stats, now that you can get them through Ad.ly.

Their system tells you how many “real” followers you have, as opposed to “bots.”

You can also get the male/female ratio, the number of retweets you get during different day parts, location information and lots more.

All that information comes to you free. For $9.99/month or $99.99/year, Ad.ly will give you more detailed reports.

Those reports will name your “20 most influential followers,” something called “sentiment analysis” and other stuff.

For free, I found out that most of my followers are male, and based in New York, Texas, Florida and California. My four “most influential followers” came as a big surprise — I wouldn’t have guessed any of them!

I don’t know enough about analytics to tell you how accurate Ad.ly’s metrics are. But the basic options are free, so you might find it helpful.

And of course, Ad.ly is still one of the best Twitter ad networks around, if you’re interested in monetizing your Tweets.

Be sure to check it out!

– Kathy (@kshaidle)