Curl Command and its attributes

curl -L -o donation.zip http://bit.ly/1Aoywaq

http://bit.ly/1Aoywaq is the URL of a zipped file "donation.zip"

 Donation.zip contains multiple zipped files (block_1.zip to block_10.zip) along with a documentation and a csv file that stores the frequency count.

donation.zip : destination filename mentioned in the command line, where the downloaded fill will get saved

-o:

curl command is used to download a file from a particular URL. We can save the result of the curl command in a file with attribute -o/-O

-o  (lowercase o) : result will be saved in the file name mentioned in the command line

-O (Uppercase O) : result will be saved in the filename taken from the filename mentioned in the URL

-L : 

If the source file is moved to some other location, then an HTTP location header is send as the response to the curl command. If we mention -L as an attribute in the command line, curl will take the HTTP location header and follow the new location to get the file.

Alternative of curl command is the wget command which is also used to download the offline page of a particular URL.

#Tweetsmap : twitter analytics

Tweetsmap is an interesting feature of Twitter analytics @ http://tweepsmap.com/  . It allows account specific social network analysis. It lets you find out who follows you, based on country, state/province and city. As it says in its website , its a geo targeted twitter analytics and management. It creates an interactive follower map showing where they reside. This can be further drilled down for analysis.

Another interesting feature is follower segmentation. This features allows us to segment audience based on a range of filters like there gender, location, follower count, the keywords found in there profile etc.

There are several other interesting features like finding out who unfollowed you, who made a mention of you around the map.