Love Those Analytics: Hubspot Launches Tool to Track Retweets (and Thankfully Changes Its Name)

HubSpot has released a beta version of its free WhoTweetedMe content analytics tool, which analyzes a URL for its most influential retweeters, statistics about potential reach and a timeline of retweets.

Boston-based HubSpot does online lead-gen for small businesses in a range of industries.

Due to Twitter API limitations, the tool currently works best on URLs that are between one day to two weeks old. Users can also add the WhoTweetedMe bookmarklet to access the full statistical report for a URL without having to visit the website.

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Walmart Shutting Down Music Downloads -- and Why Internet TVs Are the Next Battle with Apple

[ Photo of Walmart in Beijing by Daniel Ng, creative commons license. ]

After nearly eight years in business, Walmart Music Downloads will officially shutdown on Aug. 29.

"We recently notified our music partners that we've made a business decision to no longer offer MP3 digital tracks as of August 29, 2011," Walmart spokesperson Ravi Jariwala told LAUNCH.

The service was once hailed as an "iTunes killer" because it charges just $0.88 for an MP3 rather than $0.99 or more for popular tracks.

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iPhone 5 Promotion Video Leaked Is Totally Worth Watching -- Even Though It's Fake (video)

Clearly this is fake, but it's delightful that someone took the time to build it, and it's getting us excited for an iPhone that's got a screen as big as Samsung and HTC's phones from last year. 

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LinkedIn Forbids Members with 250+ Connections to Self-Close Accounts

LinkedIn users with more than 250 connections have to go through customer service in order to cancel their accounts.

LinkedIn member Jonathan Snook received the following response to his cancellation request:

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Elite Military Personnel Banned from Social Media

[ Photo of U.S. Navy SEALS demonstration by Charles McCain, creative commons license. ]

The U.S. government doesn’t want Navy SEALS using Facebook and Twitter because it fears terrorists could target them for potential assassination through social networks, an elite soldier in the military told LAUNCH.

This ban follows the deaths of 22 SEALs and 8 other U.S. Armed Forces personnel when a Chinook helicopter was shot down last Saturday.

Officials from the United States Special Operations Command, which is in charge of units like the Navy SEALs and Army Special Forces units, did not want identities of these soldiers disclosed because of security concerns, according to the Washington Post.

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