Yesterday we spent some time with a client explaining the benefits of Twitter, finalizing their objectives on why and how to use Twitter, how to best use Twitter to connect with their customers, and train them on How to Twitter Search to find interesting people to follow.
For those new to Twitter, it is a great social marketing tool that can help you engage with customers, follow hot trends in your industry, breaking news, asking questions, and learn from people you admire. There are few social networking platforms that can match Twitters capacity for real-time, person-to-person communication.
In this blog post we wanted to share a few of those Twitter Search tips to help you get started following interesting people. First, there are 4 main reasons why you should leverage Twitter Search for your business:
- Find good people to follow, especially for new users, can be a bit challenging
- Stay on top of industry buzz and hot trends
- Learn about your competitors and what people are saying about them
- Listen to your customers, monitor the sentiment about your brand and address any issues you uncover
Second, before we get into it How To Twitter Search check out this video from Common Craft, who are known for creating great videos to explain complex topics such as Twitter Search. They did a great job at covering the basics on How To Twitter Search:
Last, but not least, there are about 18 different ways to use search operators on Twitter search; however, we have found only 10 of the Twitter Search Operators to be beneficial.
- internet marketing = containing both “internet” and “marketing”
- Google or Bing = containing “Google” or “Bing” or both
- “iClick Solutions” = containing the exact phrase match “iClick Solutions”
- marketing -cheap = containing “marketing” but not “cheap”
- #SEO = containing the hashtag (related discussions) “SEO”
- “happy hour” near:”Phoenix” = containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “Phoenix”
- SEO near:Scottsdale = containing SEO tweets sent near the specified location
- Facebook since:2010-05-13 = containing “Facebook” and sent since May 13, 2010
- Yelp until:2010-05-13 = containing “Yelp” and sent up to date May 13, 2010
- Google filter:links = containing “Google” and linking to URLs
So now that you have our recommendations on How To Twitter Search get started by visiting http://search.twitter.com. Oh, of course, make sure you follow iClick Solutions on Twitter and we look forward to your tweets.
In the comment area below please share your Twitter ID and let us know a brief overview what you tweet about so others can follow you. Hope the above How To Twitter Search tips were helpful.
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