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.
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.
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 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, 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 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/.
…she sent me this article, When Is Social Networking Kosher In The Office? from NPR. You can read it or listen to it.
I had to share this one, because we hear companies discussing this all the time – the pros and cons of social networking. This story talks about Yammer as one workplace solution for team microblogging.
Yammer takes the basic idea behind Twitter and moves it into the workplace, where it is only accessible via SSL to employees with a valid company email (and other security restrictions).
Yammer might be a useful tool to manage projects and keep track of what teammates or employees are doing without exposing their “Tweets” to the whole world.
Online marketing firm, Hubspot, released a report today that details the “State of the Twittersphere” for the fourth quarter of 2008.
The report lists the following Twitter statistics:
The full report is available on Hubspot’s research page.
Here are some Tweet Twools that I have been using successfully:
Twitter news about the terrorist attacks every few seconds, at Mumbai, Bombay, #Mumbai, and @BreakingNewz.
The Wikipedia page about these attacks features a picture of a gun-toting attackers and is becomining the clearing house for information about the attacks just as it did for the Virginia Tech shooting. In the Virgina Tech shooting over 8000 amendments to the Wikipedia article were posted in 2 weeks.
Competisaurus has just let the world know my secret techniques for predicting maritime disasters. Twitter Search is like sitting in a dockside bar listening to enemy sailors plot some dastardly attack. If you understand that competitive intelligence isn’t a guessing game like Battleship, then searching Twitter might help your marketing salvo sink a competitor’s Battleship. Now keep this to yourself, let it be our little secret.
On the other hand, landlubbers at US Army intelligence wrote a report on the Twitter-threat. The report postulates that Twitter could be used for coordinating terrorist attacks. The report supposedly states, “Twitter was recently used as a counter-surveillance, command and control, and movement tool by activists at the Republican National Convention,”. “The activists would Tweet each other and their Twitter pages to add information on what was happening with Law Enforcement near real time.”
Must we tweet this Twitter-threat stuff seriously?