Tips and Tricks

How To Find Old Tweets Through Google’s Realtime Search

June 7, 2011
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I just recently starting messing around with Google’s excellent Realtime Search to see how it catalogs old tweets and first tweets. It’s pretty amazing. Here’s a quick and simple tutorial on using Google’s Realtime Search to find older and even first tweets. Getting started is easy. Go to google search and type in any topic or keyword, phrase and so on.  Click search. On the left hand side you’ll see on the left hand side a bunch of search options

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5 Feeds That Tweet About Twitter And Your Online Business

May 31, 2011

If your thinking about integrating Twitter into your business plan your not alone. There are literally thousands and thousands of articles on the internet that can tell you how to optimize Twitter to maximize its potential in gaining customers and growing your business. Following Twitter feeds related to this topic is an easy and no-hassle way to find information and links to daily articles and tips on using Twitter for your business. These tweets can give you a steady daily diet

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Royal Wedding Popular Hashtags On Twitter

April 12, 2011

Royal Wedding Popular Hashtags On Twitter Some Twitter hashtag 101 For the Twitter pro the hashtag is a great way to help narrow your search return tweets to a more specific topic, theme or event.  Just as importantly, tweets will sometimes have small linear hashtag clouds embedded within them that can bind the related topics together into one continous stream of related tweets.  This way a tweeter can cross-check to see what other trending hashtags were generated along the same

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8 Twitter Sites That Tweet Free Stuff

March 18, 2011

Free is a powerful word. We all would love to get things for free without too much stress. It’s not always that easy though on the internet. Most free offers require you to sign up for promotional items, email newsletter offers or just a general registration. A collection of free tweets on a page could make the process a little easier.  There are plenty of sites tweeting offers daily through twitter. You can make it worth your while, if you have the time, to incur savings by responding

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Find First Tweets, Old Tweets or Any Tweets Using Google Search

March 6, 2011

It definetly can be an interesting and curious investigation to go back and look at a person or company’s first set of tweets 0r an entire archive of tweets. A collection of tweets might someday mean a lot more to someone or some group than just a long forgotten zip file or tweets stored on some hard drive.  In fact, some valuable information might be gleaned from looking back at these tweetings, and I’ve found a tutorial page that will help locate tweets posted long

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With Inflation Skyrocketing Use Twitter To Look For Free Coupon Deals

February 27, 2011

I’ve been noticing  the recent ascent of prices at my local grocery store and it’s becoming somewhat alarming. I’ve never been one to use coupons on a consistent basis. For one thing, my local grocery store always gives me coupons for items I would never purchase or for cheaper, lower quality brands. I’ve seen a bag of potatoes double in the last 2 weeks and poultry increase around 30 percent. Then I see that gasoline is increasing rapidly, another 20 cent spike in

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Twitter to Launch a Tool for TweetStats

November 28, 2010

Twitter is gearing itself up to face the competition in the social media market, and it’s beefing itself up by adding newer and better features for the big fight. The new twitter has already rolled out all the world and had made #twitter a hot topic again, and the latest arsenal is a new stats tool which will let a person monitor the popularity of the updates posted. This means that people will find out exactly how useless their ‘took a break, hit the toilet for a leak’,

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50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business

August 30, 2010

We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us (including me) that can disagree and point out business value. I’m not going to address the naysayers much with this. Instead, I’m going to offer 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business. And by “business,” I mean anything from a solo act

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