Tips and Tools for Gathering Information on Twitter

Twitter is more than just sharing anecdotes and alerting friends of your daily activities. Many big businesses and scores of individuals are sharing valuable information. For instance, you can gather information to make more informed marketing choices by conducting surveys on Twitter. Or you can learn about the newest product straight from the company releasing it. Here are some great tips and tools for finding this type of information.

Keep Track

If you are searching locally, then Twitter Local is the place to go. Twitter Local sorts tweets according to location. So, if you are looking for local information, you would filter according to where you are. When you need to look for a business with Twitter, then Twellow (Twitter yellow pages) can help you with that.

Just Ask

People who tweet do so because they like to share information. If you want to learn more about your customers, for instance, simply ask how often they buy a product. If you want to try a more official poll or survey, try Twtpoll.

Follow Competitors

Use Hootsuite to follow your competitors. You can create a column that keeps you up to date on all the latest news of sales and promotions. Another column can search tweets with your competitors’ names, words like your competitors’ names, and keywords they may use. Also search with the words “hate” and “sucks.” You can find out what your competitors are doing wrong. That is where you step in and suggest your own solution.

Retweetist

The Retweetist keeps track of the things that are considered worthy of retweeting. They share the top topics, linking directly to the sites. Of course, you can follow Retweetist on Twitter.

Monitter

Monitter is your personal Twitter moniter. Just type in keywords and watch what people are saying. You will get information streaming live about the topic you most care about.

Tweetnews

Tweetnews sorts news according to related tweets that you send and receive. This is nice because you will never miss out on the news you really care about while you read about stuff you love knowing about.
Use Twitter for more than just your entertainment with the right tools and techniques. Take advantage of this free form of information to get your news fix or to build your business contacts. Be careful, though; you may develop a new addiction.

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