Mar 15
Five Tools For Searching Twitter Profiles
Published by Amybeth (@researchgoddess) at 2:00 pm under Cool Tool Alert,Social,Technology,Twitter
Earlier today, I spent about 30 minutes in the Arbita Sourcing Lab at SourceCon showing the participants how to search Twitter profiles and clean/manage their followers. We had fun and learned how to make good use of the information that people provide in their bios to aid in our candidate searches. Below are some of the resources I shared with the lab participants. Enjoy!
Tweepsearch – allows people on Twitter to search their followers bio and location information. Twitter doesn’t currently have a bio search and as your Twitter network grows, it’s nice to be able to look through your tweeps. Limited advanced Boolean search (i.e. no near: location search). This is a good service be cause it is:
- Sortable by username, # of followers, or # followed
- Able to download search results to .csv file
Tweepz – does the same thing as Tweepsearch, but allows you to create an RSS feed from your search results. You can:
- Use advanced Boolean operators (location, specific name, etc.)
- Create an RSS feed of search results
Followerwonk – lets you search bios as well as do Twitter account comparisons. Can be either a very simple keyword search or a more complex, detailed SQL full-text search (using the documentation available on the site). For account comparisons, you can run up to three accounts side-by-side and get Venn diagram information on:
- Shared connections – followers & following
- Days on Twitter
- # of new followers per day
- # of tweets
LocaFollow – a Google-powered Twitter profile search engine. It allows you to search bio, location, name, AND tweets. By logging in to your Twitter account from LocaFollow you will be able to:
- Bulk follow the resulting Twitter accounts, or follow them individually
- Create a Twitter list directly from the search results
- Create a TweepML list as the service is integrated with LocaFollow (see my post about why I love TweepML)
- Tweet a particular Twitter user’s search results rank
Twiangulate – lets you search for who your friends, enemies and peers are following (see my Cool Tool Alert post about Twiangulate). Allows for three comparison searches of up to three Twitter accounts, as well as a keyword search. Only simple Boolean can be used in the keyword search (AND, OR [using | ], NOT [using !], and phrase [using “ ”]). This is an awesome service because:
- You can keywords search for profiles of individuals whom a specific Twitter user is following – for example, let’s say I wanted to find out what Account Directors a recruiting colleague is following… I would type “account director” into the keywords search, and the Twitter username I wanted to parse into the next field. I would get the results listed below
- You can instantly tweet out your search results directly from Twiangulate
- You can search for biggest or most common followers, or most common or most obscure friends
Do you know of any other Twitter profile search tools? Please leave a comment with the link!
Great list. @locafollow is my favorite and very useful.
Lists based search. Http://www.mytwittercloud.com
The time you spent with me showing me these tools was invaluable. I enjoyed spending time with you. I’m still using them so the proof is in the pudding.
@HRMargo
I’ve had good luck using TweetAdder to search for certain keywords in profiles. (Company name, title, location.) I only use about 10% of what it was designed to do because the other 90% is for auto-following, auto-unfollowing, etc.
I use the free version and find it helpful when searching for target candidates.
Here’s their url: http://www.tweetadder.com
I use TweetTwain for my business accounts, which has support for multiple accounts.
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