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Tool for Tracking brands on Twitter Came across a cool little tool for tracking brands on twitter, called Tweetscribe. It allows you to track conversations about brands, people and products and get the searches via an RSS feed. The thing that is really cunning [IMHO] is the fact that you can do pretty thorough searches: by key words, by twitterer [is that the right name for someone who twitters?] or by exact phrase. To test it out I did a search on my name [I'm not really vain, honest] and found out that I'm a very good singer, apparently. [Obviously, there are two Robin Wilson, unless of course karaoke bars in West London record drunken singers]. Joking aside, this can be really useful for monitoring conversations about a client's brands or for researching what's been said about a competitor or prospect.

Matt McAlister » Building communities from Twitter posts I spent a little time over the last couple of weeks playing around with some Twitter data. I was noticing how several people, myself included, were sharing the funny things their kids say sometimes: # So then I wondered whether there was a way to capture, prioritize and then syndicate the best Twitter posts into a ‘kiddie quote of the day’ or something like that. My experiment only sort of works, but there are some lessons here that may be useful for community builders out there. Get the quotes: I ran some searches through Twitter Search and collected the RSS feeds from those results to create the pool of content to use for the project. I also included a Creative Commons copyright on all the pages of the web site to make sure the rights ownership issues were clear. # Lastly, I added a search criteria for my feed collector that looks for references to KidTwits. In a very similar way the web site serves as a service broker or activity driver.

27 Twitter Applications Your Small Business Can Use Today Twitter is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds lately. It seems like everyone is talking about Twitter. The neat thing is that everyone seems to use Twitter in their own unique way. Hundreds of Twitter applications can be found on numerous sites that offer cool tools to help you manage the way you use Twitter. If you use Twitter for marketing your small business, I sorted thru tons of apps to bring you the most helpful. Feel free to suggest other Twitter apps, for business owners, below in the comments. #HashtagBattle The 2008 Social Network Analysis Report - Geographic - Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed 2010 was a rocky year in the social network space and many sites closed their doors including Propeller.com and Team Sugar, to name a few. Quite a few others continued their decline into yesterday’s news as we see more social network users consolidating their social profiles. Undoubtedly, Facebook’s continued growth worldwide has led to this as it becomes the de facto source for social networking. We added coverage of the following international social networks this year: Douban.comHyves.nlImvu.comKaixin001.comMixi.jpNK.plOdnoklassniki.ruQQ.comRenren.comSonico.comTagged.comTaringa.netTumblr.comVkontakte.ruWer-kennt-wen.deWeibo.com 2011 Social Network Analysis Methodology: This year we will be reporting data a little differently, as last year we noticed a trend, specifically Google Insights for search seeing a large drop in ‘sitename.com’ domain search traffic. All data continues to come from Google because they have one of the largest data sets on the web. Citing These Sources Badoo.com

BBC Internet Blog Yahoo! Buzz Index tweetCC | Publish & license tweets with Creative Commons How the Hashtag Became a Campaign Battleground - Nancy Scola - Politics Twitter's content-sorting mechanism is the latest messaging weapon in the 2012 presidential contest One of the most contested battles in the online political arena in recent weeks was a fight over Obama's new push to make policy by executive order -- and which ideological camp could best define the hashtag that described it. "We can't wait," proclaimed the president on Monday, Oct. 24, announcing that in the absence of congressional action on his jobs plan, he'd be advancing orders on mortgages, school loans, opportunities for veterans, and more. Republicans had a field day. "#WeCantWait to make @BarackObama a one-term president," tweeted Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus that day. A flurry of tweets followed. Through late Wednesday, the hashtag had been used some 13,800 times, peaking at 45 tweets per minute, says Gilad Lotan of the social media analysis company SocialFlow. It wasn't always so. But it wasn't new. But having pointed fun with the hashtag is newer.

El Camarote » Archivo del Blog » El futuro según Downes (I) HOW TO: Create Groups for Twitter One of the most demanded features for Twitter has been the ability to create groups, allowing members to focus on different sets of people they're following. For example, you could create groups for all of your fantasy league friends, colleagues at work, friends in real life, family members, and so on. Because Twitter still does not provide any group feature, it has opened the floodgates for countless third party solutions. There are many different ways Twitter members can create virtual groups. Have another method to tell us about? Third Party Services TweetWorks - My favorite of the bunch because it's so quick and easy to setup a group. TwitTangle - You don't just create groups on this service but also tag and rate your friends which helps you filter your timeline any way you want. TwitTag - This isn't really a group tweeting service, but a tag searching service that you can use to filter tweets according to whatever unique hashtag you've established for your group. Twitter Clients

FrontPage How to Use One Email Address with Multiple Twitter Accounts OneRiot.com - Find the Pulse of the Web A few weeks ago, a small team from @WalmartLabs visited the offices of OneRiot in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. OneRiot has developed some pretty nifty technology that analyzes social media signals from popular networks like Twitter and Facebook to deliver ads that are relevant to consumers’ interests. As our teams debated the finer points of Big Data, Fast Data, and machine learning technologies, it became clear to us that we could find no better colleagues than the guys at OneRiot. As a part of Walmart, we're continuing to work with the intensity of a technology startup. Today I’m pumped to share the news that, within 30 days of that first meeting, we have closed a transaction to acquire the key assets of OneRiot. The technology team at OneRiot will move to Silicon Valley and become part of @WalmartLabs in September. As I have written before, here at @WalmartLabs we’re doing some amazingly interesting and impactful work at the intersection of social, mobile, and retail.