Twitter Email Alerts – Just Launched

by John on February 20, 2012

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You can now receive your free daily fix of Twitter email alerts from TweetSeeker!  We’ve added the ability to schedule your favorite searches to be automatically run once daily and delivered to your inbox.  Now, finding your next follow is getting even easier because they now come to you!

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Tweets delivered to your email inbox

Twitter Email Alert Features

  • Tweet or Bio searches delivered
  • Advanced Tweet search filters: within location, specific language, within one Twitter account, exact phrase, exclude words, follower count, follower ratio, and more
  • Detailed author information with each Tweet: follower count, following count, Tweets, following (you) status, following (them) status, account age, tweets/day, total # Tweets, location
  • Delivers only new Tweets that match your search.  Won’t deliver an email if no new matching Tweets are found.

Setting it up is easy

  • Go to the “email alerts” page
  • Enter your delivery information and hit save
  • Go to your email inbox and look for the verification email and click the link.
  • Click on schedule tab and assign delivery times to your saved searches.

If you don’t have any saved searches, just add perform a search on TweetSeeker.com, click the save button, and go back to the schedule tab.

A quick video shows the whole process from creating a search, enabling the deliveries and seeing a finished email:

 

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Get Twitter Followers Fast – Not a Good Idea

by John on February 17, 2012

Clearly, getting Twitter followers fast and without cost is on the mind of a huge chunk of the user base.  Especially those new to Twitter.  This is what I see over and over again in our server logs coming from Google traffic originating from searches.

Get Twitter followers fast

Get 1,000 Twitter followers

Get Twitter followers free

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What's the rush?

The Follow-Back Effect

I’ve seen new accounts get approximately 700 followers in 1 1/2 months by searching and following, searching and following – and repeating daily.  Granted, they had to follow a lot more people than followed them back (by my count over 6,000 in one case), but they did have 700 Twitter accounts reciprocate in that short amount of time.

Taking this route to lead to the holy grail of Lady Gaga follower counts may be on your mind as well, but let me dissuade you from thinking this way.

Binge and Purge

Like a hangover on New Years day after a long night of booze-fueled revelry, mass-following people in a short period of time will eventually lead to a state of regret.  You will now have to deal with one of the following:

  • A bloated Twitter timeline where you are receiving several new Tweets a second – an inconsumable flow of information.
  • A new addiction for purging the list of people that you follow, leaving some of them as fast as you added them if they didn’t follow you back.

Draw People Into Following You

It’s better to attract people to follow you than to obligate them by following them.

  • Wherever you already have Internet real estate, be it a blog, Flickr photostream, Facebook account, whatever, make sure you make it easy for people to find and follow your Twitter account from these locations.  These are likely spots for people who already care about you and what you have to say.
  • Bring your Twitter account to the physical world.  Business cards, presentations, etc.  Wherever your name might be seen, add your @screen name.
  • Tweet often, but space it out.  Use a tool such as Buffer to time when your Tweets are posted to your account.
  • Be a unique source of information.  Whatever your interest or niche, be a reliable source for news and information in that area.  People who tend to share (RT) information need sources for that information.  Be one of those accounts that they rely upon.
  • Follow people that you want to have follow you based on some mutual affinity.  I’m trying to contrast this with the blind, mass-follow approach.  If you like Justin Bieber and this person likes Justin Bieber, there’s a stronger likelihood that they will follow you.  If you are mass-following people with unknown interests, then you’re just playing Twitter follower lotto.  Use TweetSeeker to search bios and Tweets for these mutual affinities and filter by language, location, follower count, follower ratio, and more.

What if you’re a small business and you don’t have the time, savvy or inclination to religiously work your Tweets daily.  Hire someone who is good at it from one of the freelancing sites:  Elance, Odesk, Freelancer, Rent-A-Coder, etc.  Post a job, get bids and pick from a pool of independently rated resources.

Remove The Reasons Not To Follow You

Is your profile complete?  Make sure you have a good photo (not one of those bathroom camera phone shots of you standing sideways in tight jeans).  Fill out your location, bio, and create a custom background.

Keep the self-promotion to a minimum.  No one wants to follow a stream of affiliate links spewed from your account.  On the other hand, if you have an interesting blog, be sure to share notifications of new blog posts as they are published.

Quality Over Quantity

If you think that you’re into Twitter for the long haul, produce quality, follow quality and the momentum will build and multiply.

Other Resources

How to Get Witter Followers

How to Get Followers Without Using a Mass-Following Tool

Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers

 

 

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Hide or Mute Twitter Users

by John on January 30, 2012

Twitter firehose Hide or Mute Twitter UsersIt’s a fact of life.  Sometimes it would be nice to permanently hide certain Twitter users.

Some people on Twitter are just annoying. Some people are unnecessarily and overly profane.  Some people are just never interesting.  There are also a lot of Twitter spammers out there.  It makes you feel sometimes that you’d just be better off if their Tweets never appeared at all – not in search results and not in your Timeline.

But before I explain how this is easily achieved, let me describe a few scenarios where this would be beneficial.

Why Hide Twitter Users?

  1. You search Tweets on a regular basis and a particular user’s Tweets appear often in a particular niche (they frequently use certain keywords or hashtags that you’re looking for) and you’d just rather their Tweets never appear again.  You know that you’ll always ignore them anyway, so why not just make them never appear in the first place?
  2. You’ve followed someone and you really want them to keep following you, but you don’t care to ever see their Tweets in your timeline again.
  3. You follow thousands of users and your Timeline is an unusable, constant stream of content that you’ll never fully consume.  Hiding some will help tidy it up.

How To Hide Twitter Users

First I must point out that this is a unique feature to TweetSeeker, so hiding a user here has no bearing on when you use Twitter.com or Hootsuite or any other tool.  The same people you hide with TweetSeeker will not be hidden anywhere else.

hide Hide or Mute Twitter UsersTo completely hide a user permanently, all you need to do is use our tagging column (currently named in beta as “SocialTag”), by tagging one of their tweets with “hide” (no quotes).  All their Tweets will immediately disappear from your Timeline and all searches that you ever do from TweetSeeker.

It doesn’t matter whether you follow them or not.  They disappear forever, everywhere on TweetSeeker.

A less brute-force way of ignoring a user would be to use another special tag that TweetSeeker provides, “dim” or “fade”.  They both do the same thing – they make that particular user’s Tweets fade a bit within your Timeline.  Those Tweets will always be less noticeable, visually telling you that you don’t need to view that person’s Tweets as urgently.

Twitter Curation

Using the hide, dim, and fade tags within TweetSeeker is part of our overall strategy of providing you with ways to curate your Twitter Timeline.  (more about our approach to Twitter curation).

Unhiding

When you need to unhide someone you can always do that as well.  Just use our Tag Search on TweetSeeker and filter by the ‘hide’ tag, and you will get a list of everyone that you’ve hidden.  Once you locate them in the list of users, you can either unfollow them or remove the hide tag so that they will now always appear.

A quick hiding Twitter users video is also available so that you can see this feature in use.

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Searching Twitter Users

January 12, 2012
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We’ve added two new features to TweetSeeker’s arsenal, both relating to searching Twitter users. Searching One User’s Tweets You can now search for words mentioned within a single user account’s Tweets.  Simply select the “within account” filter and specify the user’s screen name. Put the words to search for in the primary search field. Searching [...]

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For Fun: Searching The “Title Wave” Of Eggcorns On Twitter

December 8, 2011
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Thanks to a recent Twitter post that came up in one of my searches, I was introduced to the word “eggcorn” to describe a particular Tweet author’s new search addiction. “Eggcorn” represents a phenomena that we see where words (or made up words) are used incorrectly in sentences or in common phrases, oftentimes resulting in [...]

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Power-Searching Twitter with TweetSeeker

December 1, 2011
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With 200 million new Tweets being posted to Twitter each day and a similar number of unique accounts registered there, it takes some work to find new, quality Twitter accounts to follow.  Quality being the key word in that sentence. Some people like the shotgun approach and follow almost anyone breathing with the hopes that [...]

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