Twitter breaks analytics tool Answers out of its suite of developer tools

Twitter is breaking out analytics tool Answers into its own product to give more people access to the data — not just devs.

Answers, which tracks app downloads attributed to Twitter, is one of the tools inside its developer suite Fabric. The tool is currently a downloadable add-on within Twitter’s app-testing dashboard, Crashlytics.

As its own tool, Answers becomes available to people who don’t need to download the whole Crashlytics dashboard. This means people in other areas of a company (marketing, for example) will be able to see Answers data without having to track down a developer.

Twitter has been toying with various ways to make the five-month-old tool more available. In December, the company started offering Answers as a free download within Crashlytics. Its tactics seem to be working; Twitter says the feature is already hosting 5 billion sessions a day.