Even if the Storify app is not appealing to you, there are plenty of similar uses for social networking media which you should be aware of. There is far more to Twitter than you telling friends (in 140 characters or less) what you just had for lunch… There actually are quite a lot of people using this medium to communicate breaking news, especially from the perspectives of those on the ground. A good example of this would have been the near revolution in Iran a year or so ago, or the latest information form Tunisia, Egypt (until they cut the internet), and potentially even in Libya.
Twitter represents a modern version of traditional news service teletypes. The trick is to learn how to search in Twitter…
How to Search Twitter – the Advanced Guide
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-search-twitter-the-advanced-guide/8034
You might be tired to see Twitter-related posts every single day but this shouldn’t prevent you from using the tool. To network using Twitter or not – is up to you. There are still many people who just don’t get the very idea of telling others what they are doing. What’s definitely should be taken into account: Twitter is a great marketing tool that can help you understand your audience and keep track of hot trends in your industry.
Actually, Twitter advanced search feature is really unique and should not be taken lightly. Among pretty traditional options (exact match, language based, etc), there are quite innovative parameters: search by emotional coloring or sentence semantic structure.
Emotional color and semantic structure search:
- Finds Tweets with positive / negative attitude: [icann
], [mccain
];
- Search for questions: [elections?].
Twitter search in plain English
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/03/twitter-and-twitter-search-in-plain.html
7 ‘Secret’ Ways to Use Twitter Search
http://www.twitip.com/7-%E2%80%98secret%E2%80%99-ways-to-use-twitter-search
