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Local News on Twitter

Published on October 11, 2011 in Odds & Sods, Social Sites, Sources and Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: .

If you provide a location in your Twitter profile settings, then following @topix_local will get you tweets about the location.  To stop getting alerts, simply stop following @topix_local.  This needs a city name in your profile settings to be effective so that it picks-up the hashtag (#city).

UPDATE: You won’t get very many Tweets using @topix_local compared to using TweetDeck and creating a column for #City.  But of course, in TweetDeck, you will get everything with the city hashtag, whether it’s news or not.

Where has Google Gone?

Published on August 29, 2011 in News, News Media, Search Engines, Search Strategies, Social Sites, Sources and Twitter. 1 Comment

Google Realtime Search Goes Missing;

The Google Wonder Wheel Is Gone;

Google Squared and News Timeline disappear;

and the removal of the Google News Archive search page are a mystery.


Getting to Know the Neighbourhood – Tracking Tweets

Published on July 8, 2011 in Social Sites and Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Google, Bing, & Twitter

Google and Bing Social have indexed tweets since 2009. You may also install greasemonkey and a script to put Twitter results on your Google search results page.

Twitter & RSS

Go to Twitter Search, run a search query, click the “Feed for this query” link next to the orange RSS button, and paste the URL into Google Reader. All tweets  for your search will be stored for you.

The “Advanced Search” allows you to set more specific parameters for your search. You can even specify whether you want to see positive or negative tweets, or tweets that ask a question.

TweetWhen

Published on April 8, 2011 in Social Sites and Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Dan Zarella (@danzarrella) a Social Media expert who works at HubSpot, has launched a tool for those interested in measuring your most retweetable days & times. It is called TweetWhen.

This could be useful in some investigations involving Twitter.

@LocusCommunis on Twitter

Published on March 8, 2011 in Odds & Sods and Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: , .

You can find me on Twitter as @LocusCommunis. This will include the a lot of links to useful sites that I find as I wade through my daily workload.

Twitter Searching

Published on February 25, 2011 in Search Engines, Search Strategies, Social Sites and Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

This Twitter thing has become a necessity to the connected. It is also an evolving search problem for Investigators.

Searching Twitter isn’t as straightforward as I would like. Content disappears in a short time in many search facilities and search results differ depending on which search facility you use.

18 Useful Twitter-related Sites

Here are 18 Twitter-related sites that I have found useful: Continue reading ‘Twitter Searching’

How Tweet It Is!

Published on April 26, 2010 in News and Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: , .

The Library of Congress announced  they acquired the entire archive of public Twitter activity since its inception in March 2006.  Addition of new data to the archive will create a delay of several weeks between its addition and its availability to the public.

Google has also created  way to revisit tweets related to historic events called Google Replay. It lets you relive a real time search from specific moments in time, but Google Replay  only goes back a few months now, but it will eventually reach back to the very first Tweets.

TweetMeme

Published on November 23, 2009 in Competitive Intelligence and Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: , .

TweetMeme is a service which aggregates links on Twitter to determine which links are most popular. TweetMeme categorises these links into Categories, Subcategories and Channels, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what you’re interested in.

We make it easy for you to subscribe to each category and the most popular through  their RSS feeds and Twitter accounts.

The thing that interests me most is the search facility that works quite well, especially for finding Tweets that include company names.

Twitter Lists

Published on November 16, 2009 in News and Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Twitter lists are becoming an interesting crowd sourcing phenomenon. Twitter Lists is becoming a favorite tool for Twitter. The lists identify specific individuals in vertical fields.

To make a list, sign in to your Twitter account and click on navigation-bar item that reads “New Lists”. A pop-up window asks you to name your new list and if you want it to be public or not. When you make your own list be careful; a public list may reveal too much about what you are interested in.

You should first look for the list you want to create, somebody has probably already created it, but at the moment there isn’t a good way to find lists. Go to Twitter’s people search page and do a search for your list topic and rummage around to find accounts to add to your list. Eventually these lists will be useful once they are easier to find and search.

Listorious has compiled a list of lists of sorts but it isn’t a true search engine. This site and the Twitter people search seem to be the best tools to use when dealing with Twitter Lists.

Bing searching Facebook and Twitter

Published on November 9, 2009 in News, Search Engines, Search Strategies, Social Sites and Twitter. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Microsoft to Data-Mine Facebook & Twitter

Microsoft has cut non-exclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter for Bing.

Microsoft has cut non-exclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter for Bing to search their real-time data feeds. Google has followed suit at least with Twitter, but Facebook is the prize because it has like 40 million updates a day from its 300 million users. Not all Facebook updates will be searched by Bing, however, only the ones made available to the wider public. Facebook, where Microsoft has an equity stake, will apparently provide users with a numbers of new tools to do so. It is unclear how much Microsoft is paying. The Twitter integration is already in beta. The deals suggest that Twitter, which has raised $155 million in venture capital, will see its first revenue since ads will follow. Terms were not disclosed.

Microsoft’s stake in Facebook may give us some interesting tools for searching Facebook in the near future.

Twitter Squating

Published on October 5, 2009 in Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: .

The issues surrounding company names being adopted as Twitter nicknames without permission are discussed in this republished Law 360 newsletter article. While this article addresses U.S. legal issues, the problem transcends borders.

Tweeple at Work

Published on September 30, 2009 in Competitive Intelligence, Private Investigator, Search Engines, Search Strategies, Social Sites and Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

These searches will help you to find people associated with a company or find  a subject’s co-workers.

Start with Twitter’s Find People. Search for the company name. A long list of followers of the company Tweets might be very enlightening.

Search the Twitter Profiles using Twellow by searching for the firm name, web site URL or other relevant search terms.Sometimes former employees appear in the results and may prove to be useful interview subjects.

LinkedIn is one of the most used social networking sites. Use Google to search LinkedIn for Twitter references with a search term such as site:linkedin.com company name. twitter to the search string to find twitter feeds. Do the same search using Bing and Yahoo.Then redo all the searches for FaceBook and MySpace and any other social network site that might be useful.

Use TweepSearch to search the Twitter name of someone and then index the bios of all the users they are following or are following them. Once you have them indexed, you can do a keyword search using relevant search terms.  The results may lead you to the bios of additional members of the firm for which the subject works.

CrowdEye

Published on July 10, 2009 in Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: .

Looking at Twitter with CrowdEye

CrowdEye only covers 36 hours’ worth of tweets — it’s not deep. But it gave me plenty of ways of viewing my search results and, thanks to that related tag cloud, helped me build a search vocabulary for further research on other, deeper search engines.

Just Landed in Twitterland

Published on May 29, 2009 in Twitter. 1 Comment Tags: .

I just searched a person’s tweets and found a tweet that said he had just landed at a major airport and was going through customs. The date and the time of the message, and knowledge of where he lived, allowed me to identify his flight.

A twitter search for this term was interesting. I found a lot of messages with the term “just landed”.  I could also translate this phrase into any language and probably find similar messages.

This “just landed” search could be useful for finding assets, competitive intelligence, and other things in which an Investigator or Researcher might be interested.

Twit for Hire

Published on April 10, 2009 in Twitter. 2 Comments Tags: .

A UK company, Twit4hire,  can be hired to post as many as 20 tweets a day on your behalf.  I guess somebody figures I don’t have enough inane junk to read through each day.