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Search for Everyone! Every public update sent to Twitter from anywhere in the world 24/7 can be instantly indexed and made discoverable via our newly launched real-time search. What was that loud noise outside your apartment? Did you just feel an earthquake? What do people think about your company, your product, or your city? Searching Outside the Box Twitter teaches us new and amazing things every day and a big lesson learned is that search is so much more than a box and a button. A Simple Approach Accessing Twitter.com is a simple experience—you sign in and read the updates from the accounts you have chosen to follow. Saving Your Searches If you find yourself searching for the same word or phrase on a regular basis, then you’ll probably like using “save this search” which, when clicked, will place those keywords as links into your home page just under the search box.

How to Use BuzzStream with FollowerWonk (from SEOmoz Pro) FollowerWonk is a twitter search tool – it’s one part search engine, one part competitive analysis tool, and one part monitoring system. It’s now part of the SEOmoz Pro tools. You can import lists of Twitter influencers from FollowerWonk and use BuzzStream to build relationships with them. Let’s say I’m starting a taco truck in Austin, and I want to begin by following and building relationships with some taco enthusiasts. Step 1: Search for Influencers in FollowerWonk In this case, I’m looking for influential twitter users that like tacos in Austin, so I’ll search for ‘tacos’ with the location set to ‘Austin’. As it turns out, lots of people in Austin are enthusiastic about tacos – FollowerWonk returns 124 results. Step 2: Export a .CSV and Upload it to BuzzStream So I’ll export my soon-to-be friends into a .CSV, and prepare to upload it to BuzzStream. Now, I’ll import it into BuzzStream. Now I need to match my FollowerWonk export fields with BuzzStream import fields. Thanks! mattgratt

Twitter alerts via email by Twilert TweeTopi - Powerful Twitter Search & Share for iOS - 1.1.0 - FileDir.com Create and Share Twitter Realtime Search Settings with "TweeTopi". "TweeTopi" is the most powerful iPhone app that tracks keywords you want to know in Twitter realtime search. Twitter search result is filled with chaos and unwanted information. It is very hard to get what you want. But with "TweeTopi", searching is so easy and powerful. You can combine several advanced queries in Twitter search including "AND", "OR", including/excluding users, languages, including/excluding services, photos and movies. You can save up to 10 customized search settings locally and update as you wish. Features include: 1. Explore highly customized realtime search settings and share them with others

Grabbing Twitter Search Results into Google Refine And Exporting Conversations into Gephi How can we get a quick snapshot of who’s talking to whom on Twitter in the context of a particular hashtag? Here’s a quick recipe that shows how… First we need to grab some search data. The Twitter API documentation provides us with some clues about how to construct a web address/URL that will grab results back from a particular search on Twitter in a machine readable way (that is, as data): is the base URL, and the format we require is json, which gives us query we want is presented using the q= parameter: Clicking on Next provides us with a dialogue that will allow us to load the data from the URLs into Google Refine: Clicking “Configure Parsing Options” loads the data and provides us with a preview of it: If you inspect the data that is returned, you should see it has a repeating pattern. Or we could import all the data fields – let’s grab them all: Like this:

Improve Your Brand Monitoring Results With Twitter Search Operators – Better at Marketing Twitter gives us the tools to make our searches specific (and useful). Monitoring Twitter for mentions of our brand is just one way to keep tabs on what people are saying on Twitter. People talk about or to us indirectly, too, in other ways than using @OurBrandName. For example, you might want to set up a search that takes into account: Key People. Setting Up Your Twitter Monitor Twitter provides a listing of their search operators. Using TodayLaunch, we can set up monitors based on a topic or category, and fill it with as whatever number of searches are needed to flesh out the monitor. Give the TodayLaunch monitor a useful name. Next, we decide what we are looking for, i.e. what kind of searches we’re going to use. In the example below (from:RealCapnCrunch), we only want to return the Tweets written by the specific Twitter user RealCapnCrunch. We’re going to add any tweets from the user “RealCapnCrunch” – anything they say, we’ll have in our monitor. Set It Up:

What You Need to Know About Using Hashtags on Twitter If you're new to Twitter, or even if you've been using it for years, you may wonder what all those words preceded by the # sign are. They're hashtags. And you should consider using them if you want to potentially get more out of your experience. Problem is, many people don't use hashtags correctly. Here's a primer on hashtags, plus some recommendations for using them effectively for your business. What are Hashtags? When you search for or click on a hashtag you'll see all other tweets that use the same hashtag. For example, if you search for #Apple, you're less likely to see tweets that include references to the fruit and more likely to see information about the technology company. Keep in mind, however, that Twitter is a real-time platform and its search function only goes back one week. Why Use Hashtags Twitter is an open social network, and anyone can see your public tweets provided you haven't set up your account to be completely private.

Topsy - Instant social insight With iOS 9, Search lets you look for content from the web, your contacts, apps, nearby places, and more. Powered by Siri, Search offers suggestions and updates results as you type. There are two ways to use Search on your iOS device. Quick Search Drag down from the middle of the Home screen and type what you're looking for. Siri Suggestions Drag right from the Home screen to show Search and get Siri Suggestions. Get Siri Suggestions Siri Suggestions include apps and contacts that you might be interested in. You can use Siri Suggestions with iPhone 5 and later, iPad Pro, iPad (4th generation) and later, iPad mini (2nd generation) and later, and iPod touch (6th generation). Change search settings Go to Settings > General > Spotlight Search. From here, you can turn Siri Suggestions on or off and choose which apps to include in your searches. If you don’t want Siri or Spotlight to suggest nearby locations, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services. Last Modified:

7 ‘Secret’ Ways To Use Twitter Search By Thomas Baekdal. Follow him @baekdal. Twitter Search is just amazing because it can give you real-time feedback about pretty much everything. That is, if you know how to look for it. Here is how: Before we start I need to point out that both TweetDeck and Seesmic (my two favorite Twitter apps – with Seesmic being the #1) allows you to open special search panels, allowing you to “follow” a search term, instead of a person. This is a great way to keep on top of things. The Secrets… 1: Get up to speed with all the latest buzz The primary way that I keep up-to-speed on social networking is to follow a social networking search. Simply search for: “social web” OR “social media” OR “social news” -rt filter:links 2: Find all the people who are not talking about you directly Another thing you might want to do is to find all the people who talks about you (or your product) but isn’t including you directly. Baekdal -to:baekdal -from:baekdal -@baekdal 3: Get all reactions across multiple twitter profiles

How to use Twitter search to connect with potential customers * Small Business Bliss 9EmailShare Hands down one of my favourite uses for Twitter is to find people that are looking for my services. I’ve landed contracts and established connections that could lead to future gigs. This can work not only for a consultant like me, but really for any small business that is looking to find and interact with potential customers online. With Twitter, you can do this quickly and efficiently. Did I mention that it’s easy and free? All you need is Twitter search… Keyword searches Twitter lets you monitor conversations that contain certain words. As with any search, the more specific you can be the better. Local businesses If your small business serves only your local community, then you will definitely want to be adding a local limitation on what you’re searching for. A local strategy is also a good idea even if your products or services could be used by anyone worldwide.

How to Search Twitter – the Advanced Guide inShare24 You might be tired to see Twitter-related posts every single day but this shouldn’t prevent you from using the tool. To network using Twitter or not – is up to you. Add Twitter Followers automatically. Now, to do that effectively, let’s look at how to search Twitter properly: Use Twitter (advanced) search (formerly Summize): Actually, Twitter advanced search feature is really unique and should not be taken lightly. Word-level search: search for exact match: e.g. Use Twitter Search Tools: Hashtags.org (as the name suggests) keeps track of all twittered hashtags (#). Twitseek searches for URLs twittered along with the keyword.Tweet Scan is a simple Twitter search tool (updates results every second);Twit Scoop searches and tracks the keyword-related conversations. inShare24 Ann Smarty is the blogger and community manager at Internet Marketing Ninjas.

With 400 Million Tweets Per Day, Twitter Spending "Inordinate Resources" On Improving Content Discovery Twitter is devoting “an inordinate amount of resources and time” to improve content discovery for its users — a challenge that’s no doubt made more difficult by the service’s growing userbase and increased tweet activity. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told a conference audience this week that Twitter is now seeing more than 400 million tweets per day, up from the 340 million figure that the company revealed in March. CNET reported Costolo’s comments from a conference put on by The Economist: Costolo was somewhat more forthcoming about mining the data trove it collects. Twitter has made a number of recent improvements related to discovery. Costolo also said that mobile activity is surpassing the desktop on several fronts, including — at least once — ad revenue. We have an ad platform that is already inherently suited to mobile. The company has previously said that 55 percent of active users are mobile.

Twitter Upgrades Search With Autocomplete & New Filters Twitter’s search tool has just undergone a slight makeover with a number of new features that should help get users to the information they’re looking for quicker than before. The most noticeable upgrade is the addition of autocompleted search suggestions that appear below the search box as you type. The dropdown will show terms that you might be searching for, as well as Twitter accounts — whether you follow them or not — that may match what’s being typed in the search box. After completing the search, Twitter has added a new filter to the tweet results. In addition to being able to see “top” or “all” tweets, users can now see tweets from “People you follow.” This is a very welcome filter that you’ll use a lot when looking for a tweet from your stream that’s a day or three old. Other upgrades include:

At 1.6 Billion Queries Per Day, Twitter Finally Aims To Make Search Personally Relevant While much of the talk leading up to today was about Twitter’s move into the photo game , the bigger news is actually what they’ve done to their search product. They’ve completely rebuilt it. And while it may not be immediately apparent, the product should be much, much better than before. Twitter details the project in a long post on their Engineering blog today. Twitter detailed some of this last October. But that’s still mainly back-end talk. Notably, Twitter now has a “Most relevant” tab on the search results page. Twitter cites three key types of signals they’re looking for: Static signals, added at indexing time Resonance signals, dynamically updated over time Information about the searcher, provided at search time Based on these, a “personal relevance score” is computed for each tweet. Another big thing going on? Finally, Twitter has begun surfacing images and videos for searches. So all of this sounds great. As for full tweet history search? → Learn more

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