Twitter Small Business Solution

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If you ever wondered how small businesses could benefit from Twitter, this might be the solution.

TwitterHawk is a start-up that aims to provide a targeted marketing solution for small businesses through twitter.

How does it work?

TwitterHawk says:

Let’s say you just opened a new coffee store in Queens and wanted to let people know about it. As part of your advertising efforts, you could setup TwitterHawk to search for things like “coffee near:Queens within:8mi” (of course you could simply search world wide if you are global).

TwitterHawk would then periodically (at a frequency determined by you) find twitter posts that mentioned coffee by users that are actually located within 8mi of Queens, and send them one of your pre-defined replies from you such as
‘@cracksh0t Have you seen our new Coffee Shop in Queens?’ or
‘@loxly What is your favourite blend? We’ve just opened a new store in Manhattan and would love to know what you think’

How Much Does This Cost?

Free.

Visit TwitterHawk site for more information.

What do you think about the service?

Enhance-Your-Twitter-Experience-With-Power-Twitter

Power Twitter, a plugin for Firefox web browser that greatly enhances twitter.

Twitter pages now include:

• Photo sharing with embedded flickr photos
• Video sharing with embedded youtube videos
• Shared tinyurls are unwound so you know where they link to
• All links are mapped to their web page titles
• Additional user information is mapped to twitter users thanks to data conduits via 30 Boxes (e.g. flickr accounts, blog posts, del.icio.us links, and tons of other social media!)

Download the plugin from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591 and restart your browser.

Relevant articles:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/03/power-twitter-for-firefox-inline-media-integrated-search-and-a-lot-more/
http://mashable.com/2007/04/09/30boxes-power-twitter/

30 + Ways To Find More Friends On Twitter

1. Twitter’s Find people: This is the basic search facility provided by twitter to find people. You can find people from your aol, gmail, yahoo ID’s send invitations to people, or search tweeters by using a keyword. Ok, this is too basic and no secret. Read the rest of the tools. http://twitter.com/invitations
2. Twitter Search: Type in a search term and latest tweets related to the term will be displayed. Follow people who are providing interesting tweets.
3. Alternatively, you can install twitter search plug-in. This will let you search without visiting twitter website. http://search.twitter.com/



4. Twitter advanced search is cool tool. You can find tweets based on words, people, places, dates, attitude and links. http://search.twitter.com/advanced



5. Twitter search operations: You could use the following Search Operators directly into the search box to find relevant tweets. Some Search operations:
   

   twitter search	containing both “twitter” and “search”. This is the default operator.
   “happy hour“	containing the exact phrase “happy hour”.
   obama OR hillary	containing either “obama” or “hillary” (or both).
   beer -root	containing “beer” but not “root”.
   #haiku	containing the hashtag “haiku”.
   from:alexiskold	sent from person “alexiskold”.
   to:techcrunch	sent to person “techcrunch”.
   @mashable	referencing person “mashable”.
   “happy hour” near:“san francisco”	containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “san francisco”.
   near:NYC within:15mi	sent within 15 miles of “NYC”.
   superhero since:2008-05-01	containing “superhero” and sent since date “2008-05-01″ (year-month-day).
   ftw until:2008-05-03	containing “ftw” and sent up to date “2008-05-03″.
   movie -scary	containing “movie”, but not “scary”, and with a positive attitude.
   flight	containing “flight” and with a negative attitude.
   traffic ?	containing “traffic” and asking a question.
   hilarious filter:links	containing “hilarious” and linking to URLs.

   Source: Twitter list of search operations

6. FOF: This is a flash application that shows tweeters who are following you and those you are following. You can manage your friends and followers easily.



7. Tweetwheel is a very useful but takes time to load. Find out which of your twitter friends know each other.
8. Twhither, Find out where your friends are and let them know where you are. This site is coming soon.
9. TwitDir: Find everything from most-followed users, to top posters to top 100 followers – I wonder who that is?
10. Twittearth brings the globe on your desktop and shows tweets all over the world
11. TwitsLikeMe, Returns a list of Twitterers (based on your tweets) who probably share your interests.
12. Twitter Ratio, Twitter Ratio returns your TFF Ratio (Twitter Follower-Friend Ratio)
13. Odd Follow, Tracks Twitter folks that make you go hmmmm – they follow too many people or follow mostly all women
14. TwitterAdder : Type in your account and randomly add 20 follows
15. Twitterholic shows the twitterers with the most followers, friends and updates
16. TwitterLocal lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area
17. TwitterMap: Find users in your area who are tweeting
18. TwitterSearch: Type in the term your looking for and find out who is tweeting about it!
19. TwitterVision: Worldwide tracking of Tweets in real time. You can even make this your desktop wallpaper background.
20. Twitterwhere?: Nice app that let’s you find twitterers within 50 miles of you.
21. Twitterwho?: Find Twitterers by email address. lets you make multiple queries on Twitter’s people search at one time.
22. Twellow team adds tweeters into their directory based on the tweeter’s bio. If you haven’t been added already, you can Get Listed. You can add yourself to a maximum of 10 categories and provide website information and other social media profiles.
23. Twubble: Find popular twitterers that your friends are following. It searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow
24. Who Should I Follow? Helps you find other interesting people to follow on Twitter
25. Twitter100, Twitter100 will let you see tweets from up to 100 followers one a single page.
26. Twitter Karma, This is a Flash application, which helps you manage your followers.
27. Verveearth is mapping the internet’s content onto a global map. Discover the voices of your world. Get started by exploring the map or registering to add your blog
28. JustTweetIt is the tweeter directory. You can add yourself and find others in your niche.
29. Micropersuasion’s Basic Twitter Search helps you search through Twitter blog posts and even search for people
30. TwitSnap is a FREE widget that automatically provides Twitter status preview of a user. The widget will automatically parse your page and look for the @pattern, convert it into a link to user’s profile on Twitter and then provides a preview of the user’s most current status via a pop-up dhtml box.
31. Want to spread a word beyond your followers? LazyTweet brings the lazyweb to twitter. Simply post a lazyweb request on twitter and LazyTweet will pick it up, expanding the potential number of people to answer it, going beyond your followers. Then come to the LazyTweet site to help answer other people’s questions. When a request gets an answer, we’ll let the questioner know.

30 Alternative Tools To Twitter Search And Tracking Memes On Twitter

If you are as disappointed (annoyed) about twitter search as me, here are 30 alternatives to twitter search and to track memes on twitter.

Monitter lets you monitor the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying.

Tweet Grid you can create a Twitter Search Dashboard that updates in real time.

Hashtags : Real-time tracking of tagged tweets organized though hashtags (example: #twittertools)

Quotably : Type in any username and follow conversations in a threaded format

Twitter Search (Previously Summize): is a powerful twitter conversation tracker. Search for terms by user, language, attitude, tag, to and from user

Terraminds: allows you to search people or updates for specific words

Tw* Tool Tracker, A Twitter account tracking Twitter aficionados and tool developers

Tweet Scan : Find out who’s saying what, search for replies, words, whatever by user

Tweetburner allows you to “keep track of what happens to the links in tweets shared with you, by you, by your friends and every other twitterer.” The service shortens URLs and gives you statistics

Tweetmeme : Find out “what’s hot” on Twitter (Think Techmeme in Twitterland). Updates in real-time and looks spiffy! Shows some of the most popular memes on Twitter

TweetSpeak, TweetSpeak lets you listen to tweets

TweetVolume, Lets you compare words or phrases and see how often they have been mentioned on Twitter

Twemes, Twemes is another way to tag tweets

Twerp Scan, Twerp Scan helps you find people with high ratios that might be spammers on your follow list

Twist, This service creates charts that let you compare trends in Twitter. The charts can be embedded onto your blog.

Twistori, A social experiment tracking tweets using I love, hate, think, believe, feel and wish

Twitigg is listing of popular stories submitted on twitter.com sorted by number of submitters, updated constantly. (Like Digg it)

Twits Like Me, Returns a list of Twitterers (based on your tweets) who probably share your interests.

Twitstat offers real time Twitter analytics. You need to follow @twitstat for your tweets to be recorded. Includes the Tweitgeist of frequently twittered words

Twitter Blacklist, This website provides a list of known spammers of various kinds on Twitter

Twitter Quotient, Are you a Twitter hero or zero?

Twitter Troll : Find popular terms used on Twitter in real time

Twitterboard: Displays conversation analytics, links and feeds from Twitter

TwitterBuzz, Shows the most popular links posted on Twitter over the last day

Twitterment: allows you to search for specific terms to see who has written a post with that term. You can even see a graph that shows the hours of the day when that term is used most or compare terms

TwitterPoster, is a mashup created from Twitter that provides a visual representation of the degree of influence of Twitterers

Twittertale tracks the usage of naughty words in Twitter

Twitterverse shows the most popular words and phrases on Twitter

Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.

TwitterTroll is another Twitter search engine that searches tweets

12 Tools To Synchronize Wordpress And Twitter

If you are a blogger and a tweeter, chances are that you are looking for ways to synchronize these two powerful platforms to use them effectively. There is more to synchronizing wordpress and twitter than sending a auto-tweet when you publish a post. Here are a selection of 12 free tools to sync twitter + wordpress.

Anwanore’s Widget allows you to post latest tweets into your blog.

RSS to Twitter will convert PHP script to feed RSS to Twitter.

Sidebar Widget allows you to create a highly customizable widget for the sidebar. This will work if your wordpress  theme is widget-enabled.

SimpleTwitter enables you to easily add Twitter messages to wordpress theme.

The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.

Twitter Badge is the official javascript code that allows display of badges showing your tweets.

Twitter Feed posts your blog updates to your twitter account. You must login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.

Twitter for Wordpress – Another plugin that creates a twitter widget.

Twitter Sharts – ‘Shart’ your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages.

Twitter Tools – This plugin by Alex King allows you to archive your tweets, make blog posts out of them, send tweets from your sidebar and lots more.

TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.

Twitt-Twoo allows you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. It is AJAX powered and allows for quick and easy status updates. Stylish and easy to customize from the options page.

30 Tools For Cross-platform microblogging And Social Media Sync

With the growing social networking platforms and microblogs, it is inevitable to signup for quite a few accounts. But we are most likely to use (effectively) only a few of them. The main reason being limited time. Here is my list of tools that help you to sync your social media profiles or enable cross-platform publishing.

Flotzam – A Mash Up of Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and blogs.

Twit4Live – A Messenger Plus! Live Script that adds twitter interaction to Windows Live Messenger

Twessenger — a Twitter add-in for Windows Live Messenger 8.1. Sets your personal message to your latest tweet!t

Twitter Sync Yahoo Messenger – Keeps your Yahoo! Messenger status and Twitter in synchronization. Update your Yahoo! Status to create a new tweet. Your new tweets update your Yahoo! status. Also keeps track of your twitter friends from the main messenger window with alerts, pop-ups + more

OutTwit – (Outlook + Twitter) Use Twitter from Outlook.

sociagami — allows you to manage your multiple social network statuses from one beautiful Windows application. sociagami currently supports Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter status

IdentiTwitch – A cross platform Twitter client written using Adobe Air. It combines your updates from Identi.ca and Twitter into a single timeline. Post to one or both services at the same time.

Posty – A microblogging application which allows updating twitter, jaiku, pownc, tumblr, friendfeed and identi.ca profiles with one click.

Twitter And Skype – Instructions on how to access your Twitter account in Skype.

Digsby – A multiprotocol IM client that lets you manage all your IM, email, and social network accounts from one easy-to-use application. For IM, it brings all your buddies into one merged contact list with support for AIM, MSN, Facebook Chat, Yahoo, ICQ, GTalk, and Jabber. For email, it offers notifications of new emails with message previews, as well as, the ability to perform actions such as “Mark as Read” and “Delete” right from the notification with support for Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, POP, and IMAP. For social networks, it provides a newsfeed of events on the network and the ability to set status with support for Facebook, Twitter and MySpace

Brabblr is a mashup tool for microservices including Twitter

Flotzam is a download app where you can control and see what’s happening at Twitter, Facebook and Flickr networks.

Twitt.icio.us – import the link from a twitter timeline to your del.icio.us account

Twapper, Twapper is a mashup of 30Boxes and Twitter

Twitku – Twitter and jaiku mashup

Twittercal is a free service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar.

Twitter Sync Facebook: will make your Facebook Status match your TwitterStatus

TwitterSoap is a mashup of Mobypicture and Twitter

Twittervision is a Twitter and Google Maps mashup showing the latest tweets and where the twitterer is located

Twitthis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website.

Twitzer is a Firefox extension which lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter.

Nitwit, the cross-platform microblogging client for Twitter, Jaiku and other platforms including Jabber and IRC

TwitterBox – a Twitter client for Second Life.

Mugshot for Windows and Linux — show friends’ updates from your favorite services, including Twitter on your desktop and the web.

Post to Twitter from Vim for Vim users.

Yoono – Receive alerts, update your status or message your friends in your browser sidebar. No need to switch from one site to another or from your browser to a desktop app anymore. The perfect tool to become a twitter heavy user without spending hours on it. Yoono also integrates many other services : facebook, flickr, friendfeed, major IM services

Gwibber – an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, and Digg (For Linux)

Twitterlights The easiest way to highlight web snippets and Twitter them. i-Lighter+Twitter=Twitterlights

25 Power Tips To Build Brand Identity On Twitter

The results of your social media networking depends on what you want to achieve with the time you invest on social media. If you have specific objectives, chalk out a plan before you get started.

Try to answer (as candidly as possible) why, how, when…to use twitter or other social media?
Why do you want to use twitter?
What are your prime objectives?
How are you going to achieve those objectives?
When or how often are you going to tweet?
What are you going to tweet about?
Which twitter tool would help stay connected without wasting your time?

Here are tips on building your brand identity.

1. Choose an intriguing username/niche username if you are beginning to build your brand identity through twitter. Some ideas to get you creative: SEOpro, Photojunkie etc. One cool tool you can use to check if your username is available in multiple social media is http://usernamecheck.com.
2. Add you real name in your profile.
3. With loads of spammers lurking twitterverse, you ought to look human and genuine. Add a genuine, powerful, captivating, intriguing yet simple one liner bio.
4. Give a link to your website/blog where people can get more relevant information.
5. Upload a professional or interesting twitter background under the “Design” tab with short bio.
6. Demonstrate to your followers that you are the most informational person in your niche.
7. Build credibility among followers that you can help them achieve their goals.
8. Have a voluntary following.
9. Communicate often and encourage two way communication.
10. Understand your strengths and weaknesses and work on the weaker corners.
11. Appreciate your followers when they share a tip, answer your question or retweet your tweet.
12. Be dialectical but not combative.
13. Don’t make your twitter stream look like your blog’s RSS feed.
14. Don’t tweet about incidents that can be detrimental to your personal & brand reputation. You might want to use a personal (private) twitter a/c to log/share personal info.
15. Give free informative tweetips and include direct links to tools and other useful resources.
16. Occasionally, search on Google, Technorati or other search engine using niche keywords to find latest niche trends and interesting links and tweet about them.
17. Use PollDaddy for Twitter to create a weekly (or monthly) summary (or “Twitter Roundup”) of your best tweets of the past week.
18. Use discretion and forethought before using any apps. Friendfeed and twitter sync
19. Favorite your own tips and informative tweets + relevant tips from other tweeters. Bookmark the page on social bookmarking sites. You can, ofcourse, post them on your blog.
20. Prefix your twitter tips with # Use hashtags or tweetchannel.com to track your
21. Get listed on twitter directories twellow.com, justtweetit.com, twitdir.com
22. Pull your twitter stream into your blog and other social media profiles like friendfeed, facebook and myspace.
23. Sync your ezinearticles account with twitter by adding your twitter account details in ezinearticle profile. When your new article is published on ezinearticles, an auto tweet will be sent out with a link to your article. Another advantage is, all ezine expert authors with twitter accounts in their profiles are listed out at http://twitter.ezinearticles.com. (I’m in top 50 :blush: )
24. Don’t smell spammy and get your account suspended. Check out rules at http://twitterhelp.blogspot.com/2008/08/suspended-accounts.html
25. Final Word: Think of the long term. Create a voluntary following and retain it with quality info. ‘Follow’ or ‘Unfollow’ takes only a split second and is usually impulse action.

Checkout your tweetcloud in 3D at http://tweet3d.com and your twitter rank at http://twitter.grader.com

Wish you good luck

ShriNagesh

Find & Manage Followers On Twitter With These 30 Tools

Twitter is all about contributing to the community there by gaining friends and followers. Here are 30+ ways to find and manage your friends and followers.

1. Twitter’s Find people: This is the basic search facility provided by twitter to find people. You can find people from your aol, gmail, yahoo ID’s send invitations to people, or search tweeters by using a keyword. Ok, this is too basic and no secret. Read the rest of the tools.
2. Twitter Search: Type in a search term and latest tweets related to the term will be displayed. Follow people who are providing interesting tweets.
3. Alternatively, you can install twitter search plug-in. This will let you search without visiting twitter website. http://search.twitter.com/



4. Twitter advanced search is cool tool. You can find tweets based on words, people, places, dates, attitude and links. http://search.twitter.com/advanced
5. Twitter search operations: You could use the following Search Operators directly into the search box to find relevant tweets. Some Search operations:
   

   twitter search	containing both “twitter” and “search”. This is the default operator.
   “happy hour“	containing the exact phrase “happy hour”.
   obama OR hillary	containing either “obama” or “hillary” (or both).
   beer -root	containing “beer” but not “root”.
   #haiku	containing the hashtag “haiku”.
   from:alexiskold	sent from person “alexiskold”.
   to:techcrunch	sent to person “techcrunch”.
   @mashable	referencing person “mashable”.
   “happy hour” near:“san francisco”	containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “san francisco”.
   near:NYC within:15mi	sent within 15 miles of “NYC”.
   superhero since:2008-05-01	containing “superhero” and sent since date “2008-05-01″ (year-month-day).
   ftw until:2008-05-03	containing “ftw” and sent up to date “2008-05-03″.
   movie -scary	containing “movie”, but not “scary”, and with a positive attitude.
   flight	containing “flight” and with a negative attitude.
   traffic ?	containing “traffic” and asking a question.
   hilarious filter:links	containing “hilarious” and linking to URLs.

   Source: Twitter list of search operations

6. FOF: This is a flash application that shows tweeters who are following you and those you are following. You can manage your friends and followers easily.



7. Tweetwheel is a very useful but takes time to load. Find out which of your twitter friends know each other.
8. Twhither, Find out where your friends are and let them know where you are. This site is coming soon.
9. TwitDir: Find everything from most-followed users, to top posters to top 100 followers – I wonder who that is?
10. Twittearth brings the globe on your desktop and shows tweets all over the world
11. TwitsLikeMe, Returns a list of Twitterers (based on your tweets) who probably share your interests.
12. Twitter Ratio, Twitter Ratio returns your TFF Ratio (Twitter Follower-Friend Ratio)
13. Odd Follow, Tracks Twitter folks that make you go hmmmm – they follow too many people or follow mostly all women
14. TwitterAdder : Type in your account and randomly add 20 follows
15. Twitterholic shows the twitterers with the most followers, friends and updates
16. TwitterLocal lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area
17. TwitterMap: Find users in your area who are tweeting
18. TwitterSearch: Type in the term your looking for and find out who is tweeting about it!
19. TwitterVision: Worldwide tracking of Tweets in real time. You can even make this your desktop wallpaper background.
20. Twitterwhere?: Nice app that let’s you find twitterers within 50 miles of you.
21. Twitterwho?: Find Twitterers by email address. lets you make multiple queries on Twitter’s people search at one time.
22. Twellow team adds tweeters into their directory based on the tweeter’s bio. If you haven’t been added already, you can Get Listed. You can add yourself to a maximum of 10 categories and provide website information and other social media profiles.
23. Twubble: Find popular twitterers that your friends are following. It searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow
24. Who Should I Follow? Helps you find other interesting people to follow on Twitter
25. Twitter100, Twitter100 will let you see tweets from up to 100 followers one a single page.
26. Twitter Karma, This is a Flash application, which helps you manage your followers.
27. Verveearth is mapping the internet’s content onto a global map. Discover the voices of your world. Get started by exploring the map or registering to add your blog
28. JustTweetIt is the tweeter directory. You can add yourself and find others in your niche.
29. Micropersuasion’s Basic Twitter Search helps you search through Twitter blog posts and even search for people
30. TwitSnap is a FREE widget that automatically provides Twitter status preview of a user. The widget will automatically parse your page and look for the @pattern, convert it into a link to user’s profile on Twitter and then provides a preview of the user’s most current status via a pop-up dhtml box.
31. Want to spread a word beyond your followers? LazyTweet brings the lazyweb to twitter. Simply post a lazyweb request on twitter and LazyTweet will pick it up, expanding the potential number of people to answer it, going beyond your followers. Then come to the LazyTweet site to help answer other people’s questions. When a request gets an answer, we’ll let the questioner know.

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