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How to Find Your People on Twitter
1. Find Your People
On Twitter
How to Find the RIGHT People
using Social Media – Part 1
By Tinu Abayomi-Paul
2. Are My People On Twitter?
Maybe not all of them.
But probably enough to make it worth your while
to find out.
2,405,518,376 worldwide internet users.
200 Million active monthly Twitter users.
It’s at least worth a keyword search and some
quick hashtag study to find out.
3. Find Your People Using Hashtags and Keywords
Examining hashtag use is a quick way to find out
whether your people are even on Twitter, and if so, if
they are assembled as a community.
Here are a few ways you can use keywords and
hashtags now.
1. Start with a quick keyword search on Twitter, and
see if those search results lead you to any
hashtags.
2. Search one of the master Twitter chat lists by
keyword.
3. Attend some chats and get to know people.
4. Use one of the tools on the next page to dig
deeper, especially if you’re already using Twitter
4. Hashtag Digging Tools
With Tweetchat you can Tagdef helps you Topsy can also alert
see the last 50 tweets in discover popular you every time a
a hashtag free, or you hashtags, and find out phrase, such as an
can get all the recent what a hashtag is article title, is used on
tweets by purchasing a being used for on Twitter.
report. Twitter. Great way to follow
This is a free tool. shares of guest posts if
Also a paid version. people don’t know the
http://tweetreach.com http://tagdef.com/ author’s handle.
http://topsy.com/
5. Find Your People on Commun.it
Free tools that help you
rediscover
conversations you’ve
missed, and find new
active people to
interact with on
Twitter.
http://commun.it/
6. Find Your People on Bottlenose
Currently in public
beta, Bottlenose will show
you top trends, top
links, and let you track
trends visually.
Their sonar view, allows
you to visually browse this
information, then explore
the conversations more
deeply.
http://bottlenose.com
7. Find Your People on SocialBro
SocialBro analyzes your
entire network on Twitter,
then breaks them down
into several groups.
http://www.socialbro.com/trial/new
8. Find Your People on FollowerWonk
Paid tool but worth it. If you have
an SEOmoz membership you
already have access.
Followerwonk digs into your social
graph and unearths data you may
never have thought to search
for, finding the 20% of
connections that bring you 80% of
Twitter’s utility.
Search user bios, sort followers by
account age, compare yourself to
the competition in all of Twitter or http://followerwonk.com
just your followers.
9. Find Your People on Mirror.me
Creates a navigable word cloud
based on what you or any
given Twitter user talks about
most.
Use it to discover discussions
by leaders you may be missing
who are connected to you. Or
create new connections
through discovery of mutual
interest.
http://mirror.me/
