Comments on: Try BackTweets for Better Twitter Link Search

By: timhaughton

timhaughton — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:54:39 +0000

@Simon = Oh sure, get all technical. If they’re gonna hide the bright orange RSS icon right next to the search results how am I gonna find it?? :)

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:27:53 +0000

@timhaughton. You can do that- I’m subscribed to a search for webworkerdaily.com. Just subscribe to the RSS from the results page.

By: timhaughton

timhaughton — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:42:53 +0000

Would be nice if they offered an RSS feed for a particular search, like search.twitter.com.

By: Internet Brain » WebWorkerDaily » Archive Try BackTweets for Better Twitter Link Search «

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:38:56 +0000

[...] WebWorkerDaily » Archive Try BackTweets for Better Twitter Link Search « Last week, Darrell Etherington wrote about how hard it is to measure the value of Twitter. One way to measure the impact that you’re having on the Twitter-sphere would be to see how many people link to your service, product or blog. Unfortunately, due to Twitter’s 140-character limit, most URLs are shortened using a service like TinyURL, is.gd or bit.ly, so if you search for a URL using Twitter Search, you’ll miss out on many of the links. This is where new service BackTweets can help. It works similarly to the standard Twitter Search – including Ajax notification of new results, so you can track mentions of your product or service in real-time — but, crucially, it dereferences shortened URLs so you won’t miss out on any mentions of your URL. [...]