Comments on: TwitterHawk – Targeted Marketing on Twitter

By: TwitterHawk

TwitterHawk — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:30:03 +0000

@LoneWolf
When setitng up a search, the search is indeed defaulted to be confirmed. The user must change it if they want it to auto send, we also recommend to people they should only set the search to confirm first after they are sure their search is targeted enough that it wont bring back generic responses. This will in the end only amount to their Twitter accoung being removed.
I like the idea of checking to see if the message has already been replied to though, will have to take a look into that.

Regards,

Chris

By: LoneWolf

LoneWolf — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:58:44 +0000

@TwitterHawk That would be something that I think most Twitterfolk would accept, but I believe that most of us would like to see these tools do that by default, not as an option. And I think it would be better if there was no automatic sending of any replies — only those that have been confirmed and hopefully personalized by the sender.

I remember the recent fiasco with auto dm invitations to join another network and the feelings that it engendered.

Maybe another thing that TwitterHawk could add is to do a quick search to see if any replies have already been made to the tweet in question. This could give the user a better handle on whether or not their reply would be overkill.

By: TwitterHawk

TwitterHawk — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:30:45 +0000

@LoneWolfMuskoka You do actually have the ability to simply view a list of matches and send a custom response to each match. That is, the system will find the match and instead of sending a response straight away, add it to your matches list for you to confirm / delete. When viewing your list you have the ability to customise the response to be more personalised to that particular person.

By: LoneWolf

LoneWolf — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:22:32 +0000

I think I’m going to have to side with the nay sayers on this one. Even with a confirmation step and limitations, you’re still dealing with automated messages. The point of Twitter seems to be personal interaction.

While TwitterHawk is not a terrible idea I think many people are sick of auto anything on Twitter. If they had something where they presented the tweets and then you entered an individual reply that would be better. At least it would be personal.

By: Phaoloo

Phaoloo — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:04:47 +0000

Thanks for sharing this tool. I find that TwitterHawk and Tweetbeep is two essential tools for twitter markerter.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:52:00 +0000

First I thought “yet another way of twitter marketting”. Then I thought “cool” after first few paragraphs in this post. Now I think “it might be useful” – it all depends how often it will be used on what keywords. But if you’re trying to “advertise” a real niche, then it’s definitelly a great service.

By: Hector A. Henry S.

Hector A. Henry S. — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:46:17 +0000

Its a good program resume the job you would do personal in the search. I love to us ethe search to see who talk about the island i live.

The pave twitterhawk dont charge, i hope soon it will be up.

Than you for the post.

By: Dot Com Dud

Dot Com Dud — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:40:35 +0000

This is probably going to result in an epic amount of spam as, like most things, people will gone down the evil route and try to game it as much as possible. Anyway, following people via the keywords is a great idea though. Sure, it can probably be done with regular twitter seach or other tools manually but it sounds like a good way of targeting those you are going to follow.

By: TwitterHawk

TwitterHawk — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:15:34 +0000

Hi All,

A few of you have hit it on the head, a couple are a little mis-informed (mostly due to old information before the system was updated), but in the end it all looks OK.

There is a fee involved in using the app, new users will get 10 free credits on signup so they can get a feel for it, before needing to purchase more credits at the rate of 5 cents per credit.
This will help prevent the use of the app as a spam tool because as Sheamus said it can add up.

The key is to be really targeted with your searching so in the end, you cost per lead is extremely low.

A tip we like to give out is to set your searches to ‘confirm first’ when you set it up, and keep refining your search as you go along until you are happy with all of the results you are getting back. And only once you are confident that your responses are going to relevant people, then you can change that search to auto reply.

Another feature in the app to help prevent spam is a stopwords list, so spammers can’t target everybody. Eg they can’t use common words like ‘and’, ‘the’, ‘where’ etc. They can also only send out one every 6 hours (at the moment). Not many spammers will get excited over 4 replies a day!

All the best, and thanks for the feedback,

Chris – TwitterHawk
@duellsy

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:57:36 +0000

I’m going to have to agree with Sheamus. Take your time and go through search.twitter.com dropping personal messages.

This seems like a tool for shameless promotion.