Wowza Awarded a Mashup Award for Tweet Volume

PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 23, 2008 – Wowza, http://www.wowza.biz, was awarded the Mashup of the Day Award on April 17, 2008 for Tweet Volume, http://www.tweetvolume.com, a fun, free interactive buzz metrics tool the Minneapolis word of mouth marketing agency unveiled in May 2007.

To Wowza’s surprise, a Tweet Volume fan nominated the mashup for the distinct honor, http://mashupawards.com/tweetvolume/. Utilizing resources from Google’s search engine and Twitter’s open API to capture and compare data points, Tweet Volume makes it possible to identify popular brands, words and phrases used on Twitter.

“With the millions of sites on the Internet, it’s always a pleasure when our websites are noticed and recognized,” said Jeff Rabkin, Director of Great Ideas, Wowza.

MashupAwards is a hand-picked display of the best mashups, or websites with a unified interface and experience created from at least two web data sources, and are awarded on a daily and monthly basis. In order to be considered for and receive a Mashup Award, the mashups much excel in each of the five areas: uniqueness, creativity, utility, content, and user experience.