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How to Search old Tweets and Messages

Find for old tweets that are not showing up in twitter search results. I bet many of you had to deal with this problem. I already blogged about other solutions to backup you tweets and make them searchable using Google Calendar but in that case you can search for public tweets only, forcing you to leave private DMs out of the picture.

During the last couple of days I bumped into and tested this new service called SnapBird. My take? It’s just great. Here’s where you can search with it:

further back than 10 days
within only your friends’ tweets
within your direct messages
within any user’s favourites

I hope you’ll find it useful as much as I did!

If we are not connected yet via twitter feel free to get in touch over at twitter.com/vascellari 🙂

Andrea

[Communications Report] for March 22nd 2010 – AndreaVascellari.com

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The State of Social Marketing Integration – According to data from eROI and eMarketing & Commerce (eM+C), US marketers spent 13% of their online marketing time on social media in 2009, the second-largest share of any tactic.
Facebook | Intro to Facebook Search – Here’s the ‘what’ of Facebook search. Great post…it makes me think about Facebook VS Google…Who’s gonna win the search battle in future?
Facebook Reaches Top Ranking in US – The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% last week as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google.com increased 9% during the same time frame.
Italian Police Use Facebook to Capture Mafia Fugitive (via @leahdemilio ) – This is actually pretty interesting…isn’t it?! 😉
BBC News – The top 100 sites on the internet – The data used to generate the interactive treemap visualisation were collected by the Nielsen company and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia. The figures represent unique users for the month of January 2010.
Social Fans More Likely to Buy – More than one-half of Facebook fans said they are more likely to make a purchase for at least a few brands, and 67% of Twitter followers reported the same.
10 Useful Website Analytics Tools – Here are some suggestions.
Google – public data – The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.
New Startup Ideas – I’m always surprised in finding that many startups don’t think at all about certain key elements. This document gives a good structure that I wish more entrepreneurs would keep in mind.
10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep End of the Invisible Web – The Invisible Web refers to the part of the WWW that’s not indexed by the search engines. Most of us think that that search powerhouses like Google and Bing are like the Great Oracle…they see everything. Unfortunately, they can’t because they aren’t divine at all; they are just web spiders who index pages by following one hyperlink after the other.
35 Great Social Media Infographics – Here’s a collection of terrific social media infographics that might come in handy.
GigaTweet – Counting the number of twitter messages – This makes you think…
1 in 4 Facebook Users Come From Asia or the Middle East – O’Reilly Radar – Asia’s share of the more than 400 million active Facebook users recently surged past 15%.
Toyota Turns To Twitter To Repair Its Image – Toyota has been dealing with negative backlash from the massive safety recalls of its vehicles; and is even suffering in terms of sales. So what does the company do to repair its image? Turn to Twitter, of course!

#LiveGoodLife

Life is not easy at times.

Especially the last 2 years have been really intense for me. I managed fantastic projects and achieved great goals with my team. On the other hand one of the longest relationships I had came to an end and I lost a person that meant so much to me. I’ve been through wonderful and terrible periods. During the tough ones I was struggling to find something that was keeping me going.
So I decided to tag some tweets and facebook updates with #livegoodlife. These updates were about moments that I was living and that made feel good.

Since twitter is losing tweets (many old tweets don’t seem to be searchable) I decided to keep track of them so I could browse through this list of happy thoughts during hard times and feel good again.

It worked and this is what I keep doing.
I collect nice snippets of life and dive into them when I need something to remind me what makes me happy.

It might sound weird to some but for me it turned out to be a perfect way to get that inner strength during difficult periods at work or in my private life.

In addition to that it’s amazing to see how supportive has been all my community and network of contacts in the process. Often the #livegoodlife updates that I shared are the ones that got most traction. These social web vibes are another thing that can help you a lot.

Did my life change using #livegoodlife? Well it’s definitely easier to go on through tough times 🙂
Did it help me to get into a new relationship? Unfortunately not. Although I’m doing my best it doesn’t seem easy to find the right person nowadays. But #livegoodlife helps me to keep thinking positive and who knows maybe one day this will change too.

I hope #livegoodlife will help you too as it did with me.

Andrea

A New Way To Backup Your Tweets and Make Them Searchable with Google Calendar

In the long run many tweets don’t seem to be searchable. This is why I decided to have a backup of all my updates.

How to do it?

Few months ago I read the tips shared by Steve Rubel on this topic. The idea was to use Twistory to subscribe and consequentially import your tweets to Google Calendar. At that point all your tweets would have been saved and of course searchable. Really handy.

Unfortunately now Twistory works in a bit different way so Steve’s trick doesn’t work anymore but Marsh Gardiner came up with another interesting way to achieve the same goal. Enjoy!

You might be interested in checking also these other posts:

Smart Use of Google Calendar

Why and How to Sync Google Calendar – iCal – iPhone

Andrea

[Report] for January 7th 2010 – AndreaVascellari.com

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Keep track of what you need to do thanks to Google – …I – LOVE – IT!
Facebook for iPhone 3.1 Adds Push Notifications, Address Book Syncing – There’s finally a way to extract your contacts from Facebook!
HootSuite Now Lets You Update Your WordPress Blog – The feature doesn’t limit you 140 character updates, and you can include URLs, photos and files in your updates.
Habbo Hotel launches conversation tracking tool – Habbo Hotel, the virtual world for teens, is offering marketers the chance to understand what its users are saying about their brands with a tool that has been piloted by MTV.
Search engine optimisation ‘to evolve’ with Google’s incorporation of Twitter – Google recently announced that it will be incorporating live updates from sites such as Facebook and Twitter into its results pages. Keywords would have to be included in Twitter posts, descriptions and accounts in order for the feed to be “properly optimised” by the search engine.
Location-Based Ads Come to Augmented Reality in the US – Location-based social network Brightkite announced this morning that it has added what it calls the first mobile Augmented Reality advertising for U.S. markets to its AR layer in the Layar augmented reality browser
Pepsi Chooses Social Media Over Super Bowl – Pepsi appears to understand that they are talking to people, and this is a huge point that scares many larger companies away from social media.
Twitgether – Social Twitter Client for Gmail Gadget, Facebook App… – Twitgether is a full featured twitter client for social networks.
How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers (PDF) – In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day.
Engaging Employees in the Age of Streams – Steve Rubel offers three potential solutions.
Social Media Guide for Journalists – It’s not enough today to have a good rolodex of sources (seriously, who even has a rolodex nowadays?) and a solid recorder, journalists need to be able to make use of every tool in their arsenal in order to stay afloat in today’s almost real-time media landscape.
Need an effective presentation? 6 PowerPoint tips – Useful.
Google Alerts for Twitter Lists – listimonkey – Get free email alerts whenever a keyword appears in Twitter Lists of your choice. Good monitoring tool…
20 Essential Gmail Tips You Probably Don’t Use (but Should!) – Awesome round-up of tips.
Ten trends that will matter to every company in 2010 – Neville sums it all up!