Twitter Search is a great tool to use. I use twitter search to find people talking about a certain topic at that moment in time. It’s powerful because you can get real time information instantly on a topic.

Tweet Grid is also an awesome resource as well. Tweet Grid let’s you set up multiple search topics and see who is tweeting about those specific topics in real time. I personally like to use the New Experimental Layout: 1×4 grid.

Hash tags are also used a lot in tweets and on twitter searches. For example, if I wanted to search the current tweets about soccer I would put #soccer in the twitter search box and a list of current tweets on the topic of soccer would show up. This happens because people talking about soccer in a tweets put #soccer somewhere in their tweet (usually at the end) so it’s easily searched and found for people looking for news and information on the topic of soccer. Hashtags are used for categorizing tweets…

Experiment with both tools and see what people are tweeting about YOUR topic and interests at this very moment!

See a simple explanation of twitter search in the video below.

Enjoy your day,

Eric Vogel