A step by step guide for using twitter search

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On the last part I described how to spread your twitter updates around the internet with badge and wigdets; this is the part where I’ll write about a unique service from twitter, the twitter search.

search.twitter.com is the place and you don’t even need a twitter account to use it. So what it does? This is a huge search engine that indexes twitter updates and which can deliver results in real time. With a click of a button, you can see who is talking about that topic and that means you’re getting the real time response from the world! Go ahead, take a look! PS: this is not the actual twitter search bar, go to search.twitter.com

Enough experiment, now lets see what can we do with it? Start by searching a topic you’re willing to know about. Most people put their blog post url’s on their updates. You may find some recent posts while searching iphone, new year, obama etc.

Knowing what happened!

When BlogKori.com was in blogger platform, I used the DNS service from NameCheap to attach the domain with my blog. One evening I was unable to access my blog. I thought blogger is having an issue but my other blog tamalanwar.com (from another domain company) was working fine. I knew that it’s something about NameCheap but what really happened and am I the only one facing this problem?

I searched twitter for “NameCheap” and know that everyone who’s using NameCheap DNS service is having the same problem. -that’s faster than getting support! Got the explanation and became worry less.

Getting the news

Most people ask me when is the next Google page rank update? I don’t know it but I’m also looking for that update. So the problem is solved by searching twitter for “Page rank” -if you see a buzz about it, then you’ll know that it’s been updated recently.

I got the latest news and happening about the US Election 2008 or about the Mumbai terrorist attacks from twitter. It’s updated and getting it just from the person who’ve witnessed it.

Searching for someone who needs help

Lot’s of people in twitter ask their followers, how to do this, how to do that? Now, as a blogging blogger one of my daily task is to solve blogger and webmaster problems. Before I used to join forums to search for problems, but that’s a bit time consuming. I search twitter for, “Blog help”, “Blogger help”, “RSS”, “SEO help” etc. I get real time results and try my best to connect with that person with that solution.

Last month I found a person who tweeted that she lost her blog post and she needs help getting it back. I connected with her on twitter and exchange tweets and messages to solve this issue, I described it on this post. This is another way to bring on new people to you and to your blog.

And off course there’s an advanced search option for searching a specific tweet. Please remember, you don’t need a twitter account access twitter search.

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