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Traditional web analytics tools like Google Analytics are a great for both small and large bloggers and publishers. However, traffic data can only tell you so much. As conversations surrounding blog posts start to take in place other places (Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, etc.) and people use tumble blogs like Tumblr and Posterous to quickly comment and share helpful information, tracking that data and its correlation to overall traffic numbers... 

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social Media for Career Success and How to Find a Job on Twitter . But we’d like to help in a more direct way, too. Mashable’s job boards are a place for... 

Sometimes success can be a bad thing – especially if you haven’t really planned for it in advance. That’s what the designers of the new “Monopoly City Streets” game discovered yesterday, September 9th, when word of the game’s launch circulated rapidly through Twitter, generating such a massive… This is a content summary only, please visit twittown.com for the full article.  Read More →

We’re working to recover from a site outage and will update as we learn more. Update (12:17p): We’re back up and analyzing the traffic data to determine the nature of this attack.  Read More →

TrafficTweet accumulates traffic updates from fellow Twitterers Use TrafficTweet to view the latest traffic accidents, lane closures, and other alerts on an interactive map. Zoom in and out around the map to get a closer look.  Read More →

QuoteURL is a way to keep tweets grouped together that might not be in a threaded conversation.  Also it grabs them before they might get washed away but the tide of tweets over time. To grab a tweet you must get the individual status URL from the web itself and paste it into the site.  If you wish not to log in, you can grab up to 4 tweets.  If you decide to log in you can get up to 10.  This helps control the API limits that might be encountered... 

The announcement this weekend that Tr.im will shut down has deeply worrying implications for URL shorteners: when these services go away, tens of thousands of links on the web simply stop working. Some sites will lose hundreds of inbound links, and the traffic that comes with them. After a recent decision by Digg to simply redirect their shortURLs to their own site, there’s a great deal of concern that other services will simply shut down...