It's not "analytics" per se, but the first 10 minutes worth of retweets is a better indicator of whether a post has legs or not than anything else.
With the proper realtime tools, I would basically just watch for irregular spikes after I pushed a post. The actual numbers never really mattered.
A quick SMS saying the post was doing better than 80% of my other posts would do the trick too.
I haven't really dug into RSS metrics, but you get those in realtime via feedburner, so that could be another valid source.
It's not "analytics" per se, but the first 10 minutes worth of retweets is a better indicator of whether a post has legs or not than anything else.
With the proper realtime tools, I would basically just watch for irregular spikes after I pushed a post. The actual numbers never really mattered.
A quick SMS saying the post was doing better than 80% of my other posts would do the trick too.