Twitter: The One Thing Everyone Misses
Last week, at MomMasterminds, we had a call about Twitter and we talked about the many ways we use Twitter. Among our peers too there has been several interviews and talk about how they use Twitter for business. The general consensus is relationship building, getting personal, another avenue to expose your blog, your company and your product.
It’s an info gold mine and it is live.
Many Twitterers also say it is a fantastic source of help. Don’t know how to do something? Just ask on Twitter.
I agree with all that. I love how Twitter brings people to my blog quickly and who are also ready to chat. The traffic has been quite interesting. But it is also more than traffic. It’s about friendship. My customers are my friends. Twitter allows me to be a ‘friend’.
There’s a lot going on at Twitter every single minute of the day. People talk about everything all day 24 hours. It never sleeps. The neat part is, searching Tweets to see what people are discussing about.
Want to know what people are saying about your product? Do a Twitter ego search. Real time info or at least the latest. Talk about market research. Can you imagine launching a product and watching Twitter streams for instant feedback, tweaking it as you see them coming through?
Don’t know what to blog or write an article about? Search Twitter.
Want to know what people are saying about your competitor? Search Twitter.
You should be getting the idea now. Once you search Twitter, you will see just how much info there is on there. On the flip side, be careful what you put out on Twitter – I tracked a whole mini conversation where someone was talking about a product they were going to launch – which is OK. But leaking too much detail about the product is not good.
Here are some search tools you can use.
Summize (my favorite at time of writing)
And finally, you can of course use good old fashioned Google by typing in site:twitter.com keyword
By the way, if you want to see what it’s all about, Join Twitter then visit my Twitter stream, click on the Follow button under the image to follow me.
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Thanks for the post, let us know if we can make Summize any better for you. BTW: you can add an RSS feed for people posting about you by clicking on the RSS icon: http://twitter.summize.com/search?q=techlady
Thanks for the post, let us know if we can make Summize any better for you. BTW: you can add an RSS feed for people posting about you by clicking on the RSS icon: http://twitter.summize.com/search?q=techlady
I love Summize! It works so well and I’ve found several people to follow as well as great topics to write or speak about.
I love Summize! It works so well and I’ve found several people to follow as well as great topics to write or speak about.
Very cool I didn’t know these existed. Thanks for letting me know of yet another way I can utilize Twitter!
Very cool I didn’t know these existed. Thanks for letting me know of yet another way I can utilize Twitter!
Loved Twitter post. Do you use Twhirl for Friendfeed? Twhirl helps alot by ringing in a different way when you get replies or Direct Messages.
Would like to know your take on Friendfeed. I will go to Summize right now. 🙂
Loved Twitter post. Do you use Twhirl for Friendfeed? Twhirl helps alot by ringing in a different way when you get replies or Direct Messages.
Would like to know your take on Friendfeed. I will go to Summize right now. 🙂
Thanks Abdur for the tip.
@Tsoniki @Alyssa: Happy researching ladies!
@Myrna: I have been using Twhirl for a while. I did come across Friendfeed the other day it sounds interesting but for purposes of business research I haven’t quite determined that yet because it seems to relies a lot on that persons’ username.
Thanks Abdur for the tip.
@Tsoniki @Alyssa: Happy researching ladies!
@Myrna: I have been using Twhirl for a while. I did come across Friendfeed the other day it sounds interesting but for purposes of business research I haven’t quite determined that yet because it seems to relies a lot on that persons’ username.