Twitter Search for Power Users
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Contains tips, hacks, and tricks for using advanced Twitter Search to get what you want. Audience: journalists, content creators, curators, bloggers, and web marketers. Recommended 3rd party tools: Tweetdeck, Topsy, Followerwonk, & Snapbird. Presentation given at #TechPhx on 11/10/12.
Twitter Search for Power Users
- 1. FOR POWER USERS #TechPhx @scottcowley
- 2. Scott Cowley PhD student (ASU) Digital marketing researcher SEO consultant scottcowley.com @scottcowley linkedin.com/in/scottcowley contact: swcowley@gmail.com
- 3. Samsung borrows tweets from the iPhone 5 line
- 5. Twitter Search kills Google: Current events Humor Local Events Trends People
- 6. What people are writing about vs What people are talking about
- 7. Twitter Search = Credibility
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- 9. Tweetdeck = Real-time updating columns http://bit.ly/oldtd
- 10. Strategic Brand Monitoring Goal: Capture any conversations about our company or products. Remember misspellings (look at your website analytics for ideas) Use minus signs to filter out noise, irrelevancy, and retweets Create a dedicated column for questions people are asking about your brand zagg OR zaggdaily OR invisibleshield OR invisishield warbyparker RT zagg OR zaggdaily ? Mcdonalds near:tempe within:15mi
- 11. Customer Opportunities Goal: Capture all opportunities for business. Can anyone recommend a Literal Just chipped Categorical a tooth. :( good dentist? near:tempe within:15mi dentist? near:tempe within:15mi chipped tooth OR toothache OR new in town OR just moved here
- 12. Journalism Goal: Be first to hear accurate news. Anticipate breaking news by keyword(s) Anticipate breaking news by person or website Anticipate reactionary words used by normal people loughner sentenced years near:tucson within:30mi acquired by million techcrunch.com rt this is huge filter:links
- 13. Fact: Some breaking news is a little more breaking than others. (Aggregate the newsbreakers) from:@breakingnews OR from:@cnnbrk OR from:@wsjbreakingnews OR from:@bbcnews_ticker
- 14. Follow local Newsbreakers near:phoenix within:15mi petraeus Lucasfilm disney near:phoenix within:15mi (niche-specific)
- 15. Photos Goal: Find the best photos for stories haboob near:tempe within:15mi yfrog.com OR twitpic.com OR pic.twitter.com OR lockerz.com OR instagr.am
- 16. Consumption Goal: Be the first to find cool content. What do people tweet when they find the coolest content? Filter down by content type using destination URLs (images vs video) posted today OR posted yesterday amazing OR hilarious youtube.com
- 17. Creation Use Top Tweets for content creation ideas (especially in boring industries)
- 18. Blogging Search for great questions by keyword Search for guest blogging opportunities iphone 5 ? filter:links looking for writers OR accepting guest bloggers
- 19. Contests Dont look for contests you cant win. Think low competition. Think local. Think multiple prizes. near:phoenix within:15mi contest OR giveaway Wordpress.com OR blogger.com low entries DM us your address OR DM me your address OR weekly contest
- 20. Or just play dirty. first person to reply OR people to tweet OR first person to tweet "first 5 people to" OR "first 10 people to" OR "first five people to" OR "first ten people to first correct answer wins Downsides: Requires speed and a shoot first mentality Winning contests you dont qualify for Winning things you dont want
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- 24. Scott Cowley PhD student (ASU) Digital marketing researcher SEO consultant scottcowley.com @scottcowley linkedin.com/in/scottcowley contact: swcowley@gmail.com