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As I mentioned earlier today Microsoft’s Build Conference starts tomorrow but based on some quick research on Twitter the dialog about Windows 8 is already starting to increase.

Using the Microsoft Analytics for Twitter tool I ran a quick analysis of the term “Windows 8” and the Build Conference hashtag #bldwin this morning to see how the chatter has been.

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This first graphic shows the number of tweets per day that contain the term “Windows 8”. You can see the traffic on Twitter has been increasing since 7 Sep and has plateaued around 1500 tweets per day.  I expect that number will go up once the conference begins tomorrow.

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These two graphics show you how many tweets have been mentioned with “Windows 8” in between 6 and 12 Sep when I pulled the data.  Most of the mentions, around 82%, are original tweets from users and not retweets and 1,180 twitter users have mentioned “Windows 8” during this period.

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This final graphic for “Windows 8” shows the top 5 accounts that are mentioning “Windows 8” on Twitter.  Our friend Tom Warren from WinRumors.com (@winrumors) is number 4 on that list!

Now as for the Build Conference hashtag #bldwin analysis:

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You will see here that the hashtag has gone a very rapid climb over the last two days which makes sense as most attendee’s started travelling over the weekend to get to the conference in Anaheim, CA.  I suspect this has already increased a lot since I ran this a couple of hours ago as today is registration day.  This data is from 4 – 12 Sep 2011.

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As you see by these two graphics the number of retweets for the #bldwin hashtag are much higher – 42% of the total tweets are retweets.  Also, the number of folks tweeting with the hashtag #bldwin are much lower than those using “Windows 8” as there was already a dialog going on about “Windows 8” before the Build conference started.  It may also be related to confusion about which hashtag to use for the conference.  However, #bldwin seems to be the official hashtag in use by the Building Windows 8 twitter account (@BuildWindows8).

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Finally a quick peek at the top 5 tweeters using #bldwin and no surprise that the official Building Windows 8 twitter account is on top.  Closely behind is our friend Mary Jo Foley (@maryjofoley) from ZDNet’s All About Microsoft Blog.

We will take a look at the end of the week and see how these same terms trended over the conference.