I have found excellent specialized information regarding numerous subjects by subscribing to alerts. It’s been an excellent great way for me to meet people who use the same smartphone operating system as me, for instance; once I find the individuals, I am exposed to links with great content concerning Android and the devices which run it.

Twitter’s brevity and the wide availability of apps using its API makes it manageable and often almost instant when it comes to asking a quick question of an expert in any number of subjects and receiving a quick answer.

1. it doesn’t scour the entire web (like, ahem, google) for the content/keywords I want, it only scours Twitter-which is hardly a sufficient enough source for a serious person seeking serious info.
2. Why should I sign up for this when I can simply use my twhirl search option and activate it? for example, I can search ‘dogs’ in twhirl, select ‘activate’ and have a standing twitter query for ‘dogs’ (with or without #)

So what’s the benefit of tweetalert again?