Twitter Monitoring Via RSS Feeds – Very Easy
Today’s “V-8 moment of the Day” is born from my struggle to manually monitor so many keywords/subjects on Twitter. I found a really easy, free way to do this.
Say you wanted to monitor the topic of “solar power” with Twitter.
1) Visit http://search.twitter.com and search on “solar power”
2) On the search results page (upper right), you’ll see an orange icon and “Feed for this query” link. Click this link & you’ll see the raw RSS feed info including all the titles hot linked followed by text.
3) Copy the browser address line “http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=solar+power”
4) Paste it into your feed reader to add a new feed, just like normal RSS feeds.
So during the day when you check on your usual RSS feeds, any new Twitter matches including “solar power” will be displayed. If you use the popular iGoogle system, you can set up each feed and literally create a Twitter Monitoring “dashboard” for all your keywords/subjects.
Phew! Maybe you all knew about this, but it sure is a time savings for me!
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Alison on October 2, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
Great explanations, Gary. I’ve had two co-workers ask me this week how I’m monitoring conversations on Twitter. I’m sending them your way for the answer.