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Get Alerted When Anyone Tweets About Twilight, Vamps, Tech
The day is drawing nearer my friends: Halloween is tomorrow and New Moon hits theaters in just three weeks! It's almost too much vampire goodness to bear, but if you just can't get enough, then check out TweetAlarm.
It alerts you anytime anyone tweets about Twilight, vampires, or whatever it is you really care about, since you can customize the alert keywords.
There Shall Be Twitter Search For Everyone
I was kinda bummed when I realized that practically everyone got the neat Twitter search bar on their Twitter pages but me. Just when I was about to lose all hope, Twitter announces that they've transitioned out of their "testing phase" and have rolled out search for everyone. Now when I'm in Twitter, I can search the site for real time results for tweets containing that word.
Use Twitt(url)y to Find Popular URLs Within Tweets
I know, I've already dished out seven of my favorite Twitter tips, but I've got a new one that is sure to come in handy if you want to know what's hot on Twitter.
What Twitt(url)y does is track the most talked about URLs on Twitter and displays the 100 most popular URLs from the past 24 hours. Similar to Digg, users can vote for a URL by sending a link to their followers on Twitter.
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Bing and Google to Include Twitter Updates in Search Results
Another day, another huge Twitter announcement. And this time, it involves two of the biggest Internet companies around. Both Microsoft and Google announced today that both companies would start including Twitter posts in search results.
Two Savvy Ways to Use Twitter
Twitter (as with any social networking site) can get you into trouble with a prospective employer if you play your cards poorly, but it can also be a great tool for making headway on your job search or finding online deals for brands you like.
- Twitter as a Job Resource: Mashable recommends three main points for making your presence appealing to employers: "Put your job pitch in your Twitter bio (which is 160 characters); use a professional looking avatar; Tweet about your job search." You can even sign up to receive mobile alerts for jobs in your fields of interest.
- Twitter as a Deal Finder: Various brands have started to offer deals via their Twitter presence, so if you're keen on particular brands or stores, search for them on the microblogging site to start receiving alerts.
Do Celebs Get Preferential Twitter Treatment?
A much publicized post on Slate asserts that Twitter is intentionally removing unflattering tweets to celebrities from search results. The author claims that he posted a tweet "teasing" the president of CNN (which he also describes as "as nasty an item as I thought I could write" without sounding like a complete jerk). Later, he tried to search for this "hostile" tweet, but it was nowhere to be found within Twitter search results.
Stuff Your Friends Love — Now in Google Search Results
Twitter updates will soon appear within search results, Google Labs has launched Google Social Search — an application that displays public search results found via your friends' social media profiles — Flickr streams, Twitter feeds, FriendFeed updates, and more. Google defines your social circle as:
On the heels of the big announcements from both Bing and Google that - People you're connected to through social services that you've listed in your Google profile . .
Search Twitter and the Web at the Same Time With Twoogle
Searching Twitter can be frustrating and send you off on unexpected Internet tangents, which is why I welcome the practicality of Twoogle, a mashup site that provides side-by-side search results for Twitter and Google.
Twoogle's goal is to "make it easier to benefit from the real-time results provided by Twitter and the relevant sites" with the help of Google. If you ask me, it trumps Twitter's internal search because the comparison offers more relevant results and insight into the very hot topics of the moment.
Website of the Day: TweeFind
With Twitter hitting the ten million mark for total users, that's a lot of tweets hitting the world wide web. Often times, these tweets are filled with personal info and other random tidbits of info — there are even some avid celebrity Twitterers!
If you want to search through the millions of tweets on Twitter for something in particular, a new Twitter search engine called Tweefind is at your service.
Website of the Day: Deal Waiter
My Internet searching skills are pretty extraordinary, especially when it comes to finding the lowest price on something I want. But any avid technology consumer knows that some things like to stay at the same high price for a long time (I'm looking at you, TiVo HD), so you keep checking back. Maybe you put an alert on Amazon Price Drop.
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