Social Media Search Tools

Since Twitter just re-launched it’s People Search Tool, now’s a good time to take a quick look at some of the other social media search tools now available. In aggregate, these tools help you dig deeper into the Twitter landscape, connect with influential people, monitor conversation trends, and alert you via email when your name or brand (or any word) is mentioned on Twitter.

Tweetbeep is basically like Google Alerts for Twitter. It’s a free web-based service that lets you get notified via e-mail whenever someone mentions a word, name or phrase on Twitter. Find out immediately when someone tweets (posts) your name, company, or website address on Twitter, even if they use a URL-shortening service like TinyURL.

Note: they are growing very fast and the site has been offline as of late.

MrTweet helps you find and connect with the most influential people in your industry based on who you already follow on Twitter.
http://www.mrtweet.net/

Twitstat shows the most popular words of the last 500 tweets of people tracked by @twitstat. Get automatic hourly updates of the Top 10 by following @twitgeistr
www.Twitstat.com

Of course, if you haven’t already heard, Twitter just re-launched their Twitter People Search Tool which finally allows you to find people by name even when their Twitter account username is an alias.

I recommend you check out all of the above, but so far, I still find Twitter’s search tool to be the best search tool at finding the most relevant social media conversations related to my clients’ brands and my own fields of interest.