Get a tour of TweetBeep – a useful service for monitoring what people are saying about you on Twitter – with Sherice Jacob (follow her at @sherice) from iElectrify.
Tweetbeep is 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.
Step 1: Signing Up for Tweetbeep
Getting started with Tweetbeep is as easy as filling out a simple form right on the first page of tweetbeep.com. Enter any username you want for the first field – the last one is for your Twitter username.
The first page of Tweetbeep.com lets you create your account instantly.
Once you’ve pressed the Submit button, you’ll be taken to a page where you can customize just about anything regarding the notification(s) you want to receive.
Step 2: Creating a New Alert
Your first choice is whether or not you want to be notified when a certain word is used (Keyword) or when someone links to your website (Link to Domain). Keep in mind that you can create an alert for both items if you want (so you could be notified whenever someone uses the word TwiTip as well as TwiTip.com)
Let’s say we want to start with a Keyword alert. Type the word or phrase you want to be notified about and decide whether you want Tweetbeep to notify you hourly or daily if it finds a match.
Step 3: Set Your Options
The checkbox “only if includes URL” is usually for notifications that mention your site name and the URL – such as “Visit TwiTip at www.twitip.com for great Twitter tips”. Unchecking this will notify you only if someone uses the word and not the web address.
The checkbox for “search only text, not @reply name” is ideal if the word or phrase you want to be alerted for happens to be a common word or name. So if you want to be notified whenever someone searches for Twitter tips, but doesn’t have the word “twitter” in their username, you’d want to keep that box checked.
You can also choose what words to have Tweetbeep ignore, only be notified of a certain twitter user posts something with your name or company in it, or even narrow down posts to a certain geographic area. Once you’ve got your options set, it’s time to click Save Alert.
Step 4: Rinse and Repeat!
Once you save the alert, it will show up in your Tweetbeep account and you’ll get an email any time that word or phrase is used (depending on the options you set). You can then create more alerts if you’d like.
The simple user menu on the left side of every page lets you view (and optionally delete) alerts you’ve created, update your profile (change your password or update your email address) and logout.
Now you no longer have to check Twitter compulsively to see who’s talking about you or your company. Let Tweetbeep bring the notifications to you!
@DerekHalpern
How many times do you go to a blog and click on one of their tags for more information? Well, Twitbeep allows you to tag other peoples conversations. You’ll receive notifications about the conversations you want to be involved in. It’s win-win for everyone.
@frugalfreebies
Thanks for the great Twitter Tip! I am going to test this out.
@mdjensen
Thanks for mentioning TweetBeep! It’s been a lot of fun building it and watching it grow.
@frankbergloper
Hello Darren, that’s a great tip. Thank you.
Greatings from a Dutch Fan and blogger.
@xequals
Nice! This is like Google Alerts … for Twitter.
Geniusssssssss!
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@WebOptimization
This is a great service. I also use Google Alerts to try and be aware of everything that is new in my market. Using this service s a must for all those that are interested in certain topics. I usually perform searches with TweetDeck and the searches are updating as they appear.
If you don’t have time to read all day long twitts or you just want to track who’s talking about you or your website or your brand then this is a great tool.
@tutormentor
Tweet Beep/Alert has been immensely helpful for my business promotion. I am able to make contact with students who are struggling or anxious about exams to offer help/a link to a blog article that may help.
My aim is to extend my network, provide help and hopefully get some word-of-mouth about my site. From that I anticipate a future client or two.
@glwallace
TweetBeep is an information aggregator for me. It saves me from having to do a lot of search for people that are tweeting about information that is important to me. It’s a great tool!
@ariherzog
The service is more wonderful for businesses, such as many of my clients, who do not grasp the concept of RSS but don’t mind receiving emails and filtering them into folders.
@infonote
I was a big fan of TweetBeep that is until I found a better service that provides the same service and more.
TweetLater http://www.tweetlater.com
At least my main use of Twitter, more than following issues tracking keywords like ’seo’ for e.g.
@hectorhenry
I inscribe my self to try it out i did finish, i usually take a search whit search from the same twitter but this a program that resume that for you so you will not have to do it every time, that good.
I thin that one of this days i will use it. Good pots
@sherice
Glad to hear TweetBeep is so useful for so many people! It’s been a great tool for building my online business and searching keywords related to the work you do can also help put you in touch with new customers (or see what your competitors are up to). There are tons of possibilities with TweetBeep and you can’t beat free!
You might want to checkout Twilert it does much the same thing but gives you the full advanced search options you get on twitter search. http://www.twilert.com
@overnightsite
I don’t think I got to thank you enough for turning me on to TweetBeep. I can now find Twitterers in my niche much faster than searching. They come right to me. Thanks Again Darren. I credited you on my latest blog post about it!
@sarahjbray
Question to the TweetBeep users — does the email actually contain the full tweet? Or does it just notify you that it has found one?
@sherice
It actually does both – tells you that there are new tweets with your keyword and gives you the full tweet with them inside.
@sarahjbray
Cool…I just posted a way to get only Twitter @replies on your phone, but using the Twitter Search RSS feed doesn’t give you the name of the person who sent it (which is a pretty big deal). I’m experimenting with TweetBeep to see if it works better. Thanks!
@mcappabianca
I just signed up to use this, it is great. I look forward to reading more of your blogs.