Twitter Counter is an analytics service for Twitter. It provides statistics of Twitter usage, and also offers a variety of widgets and buttons that people can add to their blogs, websites or social network profiles to show recent Twitter visitors and number of followers.
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History
Twitter Counter started as a self funded startup based in Amsterdam, Netherlands on June 12, 2008. It is a third party application and the Twitter name is licensed from Twitter, Inc.
Acquisitions
The service has received some attention in the past for acquiring Qwitter and Twitaholic, a competing company.
Issues and controversies
In 2017 TwitterCounter was held responsible for being hacked by turkish hackers, using the service to advertise for a yes in the Turkish constitutional referendum. The hackers postet tweets with the hashtags nazialmanya and nazihollanda from Twitter accounts of prominets, who had connected their Twitter accounts with TwitterCounter.