The field is exploding with new tools. A friend is alpha testing a pretty advanced ORM tool right now. She found out I was being twitter-stalked and blogged about by, as she puts it, "a Japanese Sex Blogger" - which is weird, but not surprising since I'm so incredibly charismatic and sexy.Or so people tell me...
What can I say.
And when Brett Tabke had to fill some canceled spots on an ORM panel at Pubcon the other day, he got 12 emails back within 5 minutes. Pretty popular. Evidently everybody thinks they know something about ORM.
So I'm not going to go into anything INCREDIBLY advanced here.
This is just a little Twitter ORM tip.
THE ISSUE:
If you didn't know, Twitter's search function sucked so badly they removed it after buying search.twitter.com, which used to be called Summize.So.
If you're not using it, you're missing out, because occasionally Twitter won't show all your @replies, AND it will only show replies to you that START with @yourname.
So you could be missing a huge amount of discussion that mentions you. And people may think you're stuck up because you're not replying.
And you might be stuck up, for all I know.
Monitor Your Twitter ORM Like Dis:
1. Always have a separate browser tab open with search.twitter.com
2. Search it with a string like this,
briancarter OR "brian carter" -from:briancarter
...but replace with your twitter profile name
(the key to search.twitter.com is boolean skillz)
that gives you all mentions of your profile and your name but NOT your tweets
3. Watch the browser tab title for updates.
If you do it in Firefox, the browser tab automatically updates to show (#) number of new tweets that fit that query. See that number 5??? Yeah.
4. Refresh.
When new ones come up, click on the Refresh link to see them
Obviously, you can get a lot more creative with what you use search.twitter.com for - and you can take the RSS and throw that into a monitoring dashboard... more on those things later!
Hope you enjoyed this little tip. :-)
Brian
