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Re: Twitter tracking is back – sorta

alexknowshtml — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:15:28 -0000

@Lyell E. Petersen: The difference is that this works with the twitter Direct Message API so that the notifications come in real time via SMS (if you have SMS for direct messages enabled). I could see the two services used in tandem, TweetTrak for things that I want as soon as they are posted, and TweetBeep for the stuff that I can check daily.

Good stuff!

Re: Twitter tracking is back – sorta

93octane / Lyell E. Petersen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:52:19 -0000

Alex:

Curious. How does this differ from TweetBeep (http://www.tweetbeep.com). TweetBeep sends me a digest of terms I want to track. I get them via email daily. I'm not 100% sure if you can get digests more frequently, but I seem to remember that you can get an as-it-happens notification. TweetBeep likes to refer to itself as "Google Alerts for Twitter."

Lyell
@93octane

Re: Twitter tracking is back – sorta

RyanK — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:40:47 -0000

Thanks for the awesome post! Glad that you like it so far! I pretty much was just tired of track being broken.. so.. I fixed it! (kinda)...

Thanks for the kind words and look for some more updates soon!

Re: Twitter tracking is back – sorta

alexknowshtml — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:11:00 -0000

@Chris Morrell: Unfortunately, that only works for the web interface (and any clients that support it, like Twitterrific. When I'm away from my desk (which is more and more these days) and don't want to be hitting refresh on search.twitter.com on my iPhone, this is muey bueno!

Re: Twitter tracking is back – sorta

Chris Morrell — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:06:41 -0000

I can certainly see cases were TweetTrak could be useful, but you can also track all (not just from people you're following) @replies by changing a setting in http://twitter.com/account/...