Search Twitter Like a Pro
Twitter Search: the Beginnings of the New Face of Search!
For a long time now I’ve said that Twitter and other social media apps such as Facebook will be the new face of search. And it’s happening. Searching Twitter is taking on epidemic proportions. Everyone’s doing it, but for very different reasons.
Some are searching twitter:
- to see who’s talking about them (vanity)
- to see who’s talking about them (branding purposes)
- to see who’s talking about their competition (rivalry)
- to see what they need to write about on their blog for maximum interest (smart)
- for market research purposes to see if there’s a need for a particular service or product
- to find interesting people to network with
- to get the latest news on an issue of importance
- to track events
There are probably more reasons, but I think I’ve covered all the main bases here.
A selection of Twitter Search Tools
So how do they search? There are dozens of ways to search Twitter, but here’s a quick rundown of some of the great programs we now have at our disposal:
Trendistic helps you monitor trends effectively on Twitter. With those neat little graphs, if you’re watching carefully, you’ll see exactly when you need to chime in to ride the crest of the wave in a trending topic.
Next we have WhattheTrend which helps us monitor hashtags precisely.
One of my favorites tools to search Twitter in real time is SearchTwitter. It’s really simple, but I like it.
Twitscoop will appeal to those who want to watch trending topics as well as be able to search Twitter in real time.
Tips on How to Search Twitter
If you need some tips on how to use these tools to search Twitter, I’ve found a few great ones. Chris Brogan can always be relied upon to give us the goods and here he is talking about using Twitter search.
And here’s an oldy but a goody: an article on advanced Twitter search from Search Engine Journal.
