Recently I’ve been relying more and more on social networking sites like Twitter to communicate with people and get answers to questions. I’ve even learned about a some useful tools that have helped me with Internet marketing.
But as great as Twitter is there are times when it’s left me hanging when it comes to tracking replies. Not everyone on Twitter replies instantly to your Tweets and that means you can miss replies that come in minutes or hours later.
If you’re gonna build relationships on social networks you have to be responsive. Until now it’s been a problem for me on Twitter. I tried using TweetBeep to track Twitter messages, but it just didn’t catch all the messages to keep me on top of things. But thanks to a tip from @BradMcFadden at FishWitz I now know of a great way to track Twitter replies.
RyanK from TweetTrak has created a bot that converts your Twitter replies to direct messages. If you have SMS turned on for direct messages you’ll receive a text message each time someone replies to you on Twitter. It’s a great way to track Twitter replies using SMS.
Here’s all you have to do to turn it on:
1. On Twitter, Follow Tweettrak
2. Send a direct message to tweettrak: ‘track @RyanK’ (substituting your username, or any other search term)
3. Enjoy track functionality!
4. Tweet about it and tell your friends!
According to @RyanK, the TweetTrak website is suppose to be coming soon and it will allow you to filter out people you already have device notifications turn on for.
This little Tweet tracker has already helped me to catch a couple of important replies that I would have definitely missed. Hopefully this will help you too.
Tell your friends,
Charles McKeever
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