Twitter introduced “Twitter Toolbox” in order to offer brands and content creators new opportunities to optimize their marketing and growth strategy by giving them detailed analytics and creation tools.
Twitter Toolbox will help content creators with analytics tools
The new Toolbox is divided into three parts: expression tools, safety tools, and measurement tools. The measurement component is most likely of interest to marketers, with a number of Twitter analytics applications available to provide further insight into your tweet results.
Put the NEW Twitter Toolbox to work for you. These ready-to-use tools are low-cost and built by our developer community to help you get even more out of Twitter.
— Support (@Support) February 1, 2022
Those are excellent tools, and especially the expression element even shows some interesting tweet composition and scheduling ideas. It’s still perplexing, though, that Twitter is encouraging third-party applications for features it could implement as its own native features.
Last week, the platform made new adjustments to Twitter Blue in order to make more out of subscription services. It may be more beneficial to focus on business users by providing a new package of improved, native Twitter analytics tools and functions, essentially extending TweetDeck, which it can offer for an annual fee.
In 2020, Twitter disabled its Audience Insights feature, and no alternative has been provided. It’s also working on a new version of TweetDeck. Providing more detailed analytics for tweets would be beneficial, especially because the data will come straight from Twitter rather than via a third-party tool – which makes this latest Toolbox news a little bit confusing.
Why send consumers to third-party applications rather than creating these tools yourself, then selling access? The majority of these applications are free, so they’re asking for access to your data.
Twitter also wants to keep links with the developer community, and there’s a lot to be said for simply collaborating with these platforms to provide more analytics choices and help more business customers get the most out of their Twitter experience.
Why not give marketers even more information on tweet performance and audience data as a premium service if Twitter is already considering subscription models?
