Gina Trapani, of LifeHacker, released an alpha preview of a new PHP web application Twitalytic which aims to provide Twitter data crawler, replies archiver, and statistics generator. After crawling your tweets, Twitalytic will provide a web interface with some key stats about your followers, friends, tweets, and replies. You can also export all your tweets in a text file, in addition to an extended view of tweets with conversation, mutual friends, … etc. You can get also more details about your followers : most followed, least likely, earliest and former.

I realize there are ten dozen Twitter applications out there that do much of this, and possibly better. Creating yet another Twitter app is probably the most cliché development undertaking of the year, but I’ve had a ball using this little thing to teach myself a few things about the Twitter API, OAuth, and jQuery and brush up on my PHP and MySQL skills.

Twitalytic came also with a public timeline of your tweets with replies. As mentioned Gina, this is not ready yet for production, but if you have ideas or time you can contribute and improve the project. Gina did not mention any license for the code, I don’t know if you can use the Creative Commons on her blog or better ask for more details about it.