Archive for the 'Twitter' Category

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.

TweetNews Test Drive

Published on March 30, 2009 in Search Engines, Social Sites and Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Following breaking news stories using Twitter is a lot faster than aggregation sites like Google or Yahoo News. The TweetNews search tool ranks search results based on Twitter links. It follows Yahoo News and compares its headlines with news story links on Twitter updates. A story’s popularity amongst the tweeting masses will push the story up in the TweetNews results. See Zooie’s Blog for more details.

TweetNews uses the Yahoo! Build your Own Search Service (Boss). This provides  a clean search API that turns off the usual restrictions that control the presentation of the results.  For example, it allows you to re-rank results and include external content without having to cite Yahoo! for the search results.

Tweet Scan

Published on March 23, 2009 in Search Engines, Social Sites and Twitter. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

Tweet Scan  is a microblog search site that tries to organize it all.

Services indexed by Tweet Scan:

This Tweet search business is becoming quite a crowded market. I’m starting to wonder if searching using anything but Twitter Search is really worth the time and effort.

Twittequette

Published on March 13, 2009 in Social Sites and Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Twitter Etiquette: 5 Dos and Don’ts

Like any social network, the Twitter community has its own set of unwritten guidelines – or etiquette – that dictates good (or bad) behavior on the service. Some people call it Twittequette.

The Dark Side of Twitter: What Businesses Need to Know

As companies tighten their ad spending, inexpensive social media is clearly the next marketing frontier. As with any new craze, there are enormous opportunities—and large pitfalls that must be avoided.

For this article, I spoke to some marketing professionals who’ve been exploring the Twitter terrain for a while. My quest was to identify the Twitter landmines so you can fast-track your adventure into this vast new frontier.

Twitter Style Guide

A style guide for Twitter will hit iTunes by the end of the month, the New York Times reports. The e-book, 140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form, will lay out key style points from the Twitter canon,

Twingly

Published on February 25, 2009 in Search Engines, Search Strategies, Social Sites and Twitter. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Twingly is designed to search Twitter, Identi.ca, and many other microblogging services. It also searches blogs. However, its results from Twitter are not as timely as Twitter Search for some reason.

Twingly has some very interesting search capabilities. For example, to search for tweets and other microblog entries posted since the beginning of this year, use the search syntax: since:2009-01-01 then the search term. Using until: you get results from before 1 Jan 09.  To search for microblog posts sent to or by a particular user enter from: or to: and the user’s name.

Like Tweetag, it doesn’t seem to measure up to Twitter Search for timely results. It is hard to judge how it performs with the other microblogging services.

Whostalkin Test Drive

Published on February 23, 2009 in Search Engines, Search Strategies, Social Sites and Twitter. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

Whostalkin, a beta search engine, focuses on social media sites and blogs.  The concept of expanding searches to include social sites is gaining momentum.

Whostalkin looks  promising for finding information from social sites such as Twitter, blogs, blog search engines with meta searches, and a number of other types of social sites. This might return hits that represent ‘inside chatter’ as it searches many content-rich, but offbeat, sources.

I don’t have a lot of experience with this, but I will use it as much as possible over the next couple of months to get a better understanding of its utility.

Tweetag

Published on February 20, 2009 in Search Engines, Social Sites and Twitter. 5 Comments Tags: , , .

Tweetag is a search engine for “tweets” that allows you to look for trends on Twitter and helps you find Tweet discussions that matter to you.

According to the FAQ, “Tweetag analyses more than 200k tweets per day. For each tweet, we do a little magic to automatically tag the tweet real-time. As all tweets are now tagged, we can generate nested tagclouds which offer a great new way of browsing through the sea of tweets.”

For popular topics just add the topic to the URL as in http://tweetag.com/obama/.