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TweetBeep: Twitter Keyword Alerts to Your E-mail

Source: louisgray.com

Sep 20, 2008

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On yesterday's micromedia panel here at the Blog World Expo, I said the way that companies can start using microblogging tools is to first be aware of them, and second to monitor them, before jumping in deep with both feet. The idea would be to understand the nature of the community, and to see how your business or industry is being perceived on the service before sending off tweet after tweet. As one of the best tools to follow your company's mentions online is to use Google's News Alerts or Google Blog Search and have them delivered by e-mail, TweetBeep intends to do the same thing - following terms you specify and sending them to your e-mail, either by the hour or by the day.

Using TweetBeep, as you would expect, is fairly simple. Sign up for an account with TweetBeep, and then add alerts, by hour or by day, register your e-mail address, and you will get notified by e-mail when your search terms come up.

You might be wondering why you would use TweetBeep instead of Twitter Search (formerly Summize), but relying on TweetBeep takes the manual intervention out ...Read the full article

Comments (3)

Kenburbary,

Sep 21, 2008

I've been using Tweetbeep for some time now. It's a useful service for ensuring you never miss at @reply or mention of topics and/or keywords that are important to you. Kudos to Michael Jensen (@mdjensen) for his Tweetbeep work!

Sharief,

Sep 22, 2008

@Kenburbary I too have used it for a while... but felt rather not to overflow my inbox .. probably i dont want to miss something important in the mail get lost in the tweets list...Ofcourse i do afford the time to check them on twitter iself:)

Davidpetherick,

Sep 22, 2008

I have had several beeps monitoring things for a few weeks - one of the great aspects is that is recognises when a domain is 'beeped' using a short url - a link you'd otherwise have no clue had been made.