10 Tips: How to filter discussions on Twitter?
I follow more than 570 users on Twitter that leads to more than 100 new tweets an hour and I don’t have hours a day to check all the messages. Co-bloggers frequently ask me how I can follow all of them efficiently. Well, I have a few tips on this and feel free to share yours with us:
- Tweetdeck: The best tool to organize your tweets. I created a Health 2.0 group to filter the tweets of the users who are writing about medicine or health 2.0.
- Twitter Search: I always do a search for a few keywords to find new people twitting about my field of interest.
- Twilert.com: It works like Google Alerts which means it lets you receive regular e-mail updates of tweets containing your keywords.
- Filter by replies: It’s easy to discover ongoing discussions as people reply to each other so sometimes it’s enough to follow the buzz. Omnee helps you with it:
- Tweetree: It puts your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context.
- Tweetscan: You can get updates via e-mail, RSS and scan up to five phrases for daily or weekly delivery.
- Twitscoop: Insert a twitter username or keywords in the search box to track a conversation, topic or conference.
- Power Twitter: A Firefox Add-on that integrates search, images and videos into you stream.
- Friendfeed daily best: I subscribed to many of my Twitter followers on Friendfeed as well. So the Friendfeed daily best feature helps me filter the most valuable discussions.
- FFholic.com: A collection of the most discussed, commented, liked, etc. Friendfeed messages.
What are your tips?
Further reading:
- The Youngest Twitterer and the Future of Health Management
- Twitterview: The Future of Medicine in 140 Characters
- What you have to know about Twitter
- Twitter for Health and Medicine
- 10 Reasons Why I Use Twitter
- Tips and Tricks: Is Twitter reliable?
- Health Tweeple to Follow
- Twitter for Health and Medicine
- Omnee: An organic directory of Twitter users
