I'm not a fan of every social media tool out there... for example, don't shoot me, but I'm skeptical whether either FriendFeed (Scoblevision) or Brightkite (killer app for stalkers) will make it long term, and I don't like all the Twitter apps either, but one social media tool I absolutely love and use regularly is SUMMIZE.com
Summize allows me to surmise in summary fashion the conversations going on in Twitter on whatever topic. Here's how you can use it:
- Monitor conversations: Search for a topic to find out what's new and who's discussing it. See my SMX Advanced example below.
- This would be great for journalists and it's also a great source of info for blog posts.
- And also for ORM alerts- has anyone included summize in their ORM monitoring services yet?
- Regardless, you can grab the RSS "Feed for this query" and put it in your favorite reader or iGoogle or wherever.
- This could make you dizzy, but you can summize "summize"...
- Expand your network: See the conversations, who's having them, and find more new tweeple you should be following.
- Explore Buzz: Obvious, but use the "trending topics" to watch what people are saying about the most talked about topics.
- Remember stuff: Go back and find conversations you had with someone that you can't remember-
- for example, I was trying to track down my talks with dosh dosh for this post, so I searched summize for "briancarter doshdosh" and found it oh-so-easily!
- So just search on your and the other person's twitter id.
- Get spammy and use it as content- though this is gray-hat and I don't recommend it. Aaron Wall mentioned it though and I needed 5 tips according to Dan Zarrella's LAF Title Checker to make this a good post, 3 just wouldn't cut it ;-)
Example #2 Summizing Summize:
Wow, thanks to the commenter below and Myrna for making me dig deeper into Summize- it's way more than just twitter, as you can see in their labs it's also blogging trends, movies, and more.
The question from Myrna and Brian Brown was "how is summize different from Tweetscan?"
I got an answer from Summize cofounder Greg Pass @gregpass
And indeed, there are some really cool search operators:
3 comments:
I'm a twitter newbie. How is Summize different from Tweet Scan?
Thanks Brian!
Thanks for asking us to respond, Brian. We offer more ways to get your results, we have more results to offer since we have a larger database, and we serve more results per page in a more compact format. Also, your readers might appreciate that we offer affordable ways for advertisers to enter the Twitter dialog. http://tweetscan.com
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