How To Turn TweetDeck Into Blogging Inspiration
Creating unique a quality blog content is one of the very common problems people face. How about I will show how to use TweetDeck application and make Twitter your instant explosive blogging content inspiration.
Ask yourself a question – which content is most likely to generate interest:
- Something you want to write about or…
- Something your target audience WANTS to know?
If second option was your choice then dive into the reading and see how we can do instant research and get instant gratification!
I don’t try to tell you NOT to write about something you like, know and want to share but rather HOWTO write the exact content that will answer the needs of your future visitors and enjoy the possible benefits of your post going viral.
While there are many ways to get your research done, for the purpose of this exercise we will use Twitter, perhaps the most popular social network right now and one that attracts HUGE number of people from all walks of life and what is most important for us – people who socialize and share their thoughts and NEEDS!
Yes, we are not going to dance around but grab the “needy” twitterholics!
People who have a problem will be a lot more likely to respond well and promote a post that gives them an answer and / or solution to that problem – your chance to make it viral!
I’m rather recent convert to Twitter and already I manage to find more and more use for it in my daily blogging and business tasks. One of them is using Live Twitter Chat streams as source for Blogging Content Inspiration and Traffic Source!
TweetDeck As A Research Tool
TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.
Twitter has hundreds of conversations going at any given second, no matter what topic you write on and ability to search and then filter out ONLY the conversation with your specific keywords can be a superb research tool.
You get instant access to the questions and current problems that NEED solutions and an opportunity to be The Solution Provider!
See in image above I provided you with a TweetDeck interface that allows me to use a Search option (top pointed by arrow) and then monitor in real time all conversations that contain My Chosen Keywords. At any given point I can see several requests for help, question on a subject – Idea Tank that simply begs – Write About Me, Now!
Also monitoring in real time (when I have the opportunity) allows me to pick up the trends in my chosen niche and come up with ideas for posts that are guaranteed to resonate with people.
As an alternative to TweetDeck you can use Twitter Search to do a historical research on your specific keyword and see the previous conversations.
How does it help you to get traffic you ask?
TweetDeck as Promotion Tool
While you can once again use the Twitter Search tool I mentioned above and provide answers to people from historical information – it will work a heck of a lot better in TweetDeck.
As you monitor the live steam of conversation – you have the ability to provide direct answers to people AS THEY ASK them.
People respond to timely solutions to their problem. It works. But it does require some time on your hands to have the proper interaction.
Another side benefit of the strategy – you have ability to point out your older posts on the topic to people that they might not have found otherwise.
Giving is Receiving in this case!
Give more and you will be rewarded.
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Alex Sysoef is an IT Consultant, Internet Marketer and ProBlogger who shares his passion and knowledge of WordPress, SEO, Social Media and traffic strategies on his blog WordPress Howto Spotter. Connect on Twitter or Facebook
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Alex,
What a GREAT idea. I’ve been using Tweet Deck for a week now, and I didn’t even know there was a search capability. the idea of an immediate response to someone’s question and then the opportunity to followup with a blog post has got my mind churning with possibilities and ideas.
As always, creeative and useful ideas from you.
Jerry Nielsen
Thanks Jerry!
Just trying to deliver on my promise for 2009 and all the rest – I share all I know
That was a simple yet crazy cool idea. I used tweetdeck for a couple of months and loved it compared to the other applications available, but I quickly burnt out on twitter. It was just so busy! Now with this idea in mind I will give twitter another go – with more of a strategy behind it. Thanks.
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Sure thing, let me know how it works for you
Great article Alex,
I have to reinstall Tweetdeck and follow your direction. I know you can set alerts in Tweeter but I turned all that off, didn’t know Tweetdeck did that.
Thanks for sharing and Happy New Years!
Maurice
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thank Maurice!
Same to you and I appreciate the feedback!
Hi Alex,
I haven’t used twitter much yet because it seems overwhelming, maybe I follow too many. But Tweetdeck really seems to have some relevancy although it seems like it would be easy to get spend a lot of time watching the searches for your keyword questions.
Thanks for the heads up.
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Andy, yes it is but here is another tip:
When you define your searches you can then close the tweetdeck. Reopen it sometime later in the time you dedicate to it – and it will show you historical data – so just ignore the immediate action part and use for research
Hi Alex, [sorry for my english]
your blog is always full of great articles!
I’m trying to make a blog like yours, but in Italy there’re few people interested in technology.. Twitter isn’t popular in Italy, Facebook is more popular in the peninsula
Just try to make a comparison with Google insight search…
Have a good time!
Massimo
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What do you mean no interest in Italy. I’m pretty sure main developer of PHP-Nuke, another great CMS platform I used to use is from Italy!
Hi Alex, yes, there’re great technicians in Italy but my feel is that they are few compared to other nations!
I hope to exchange some ideas with you in the next future!
Max
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Excellent article Alex. Being new to twitter I’m over flowing with tips and tools with no substance behind them. Thanks!
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excellent article Alex. thumbs up
I’m increasingly using twitter. It has a great deal of background chirping about nothing, which need filtering away. I get useful tweetalerts that give me a chance to respond to people with a need for various things I wish to promote; and so I’m glad to receive your pointer to something else that will enable me to hear the ‘songbirds’ not the sparrows!
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Wow this blog is full of ideas
I got tweetdeck a week ago but ditched it after a few minutes because the gui just overloaded my senses lol, will have to give it a go again, always in need of inspiration!
Sound advice comes ‘standard’ with your blog Alex. I plugged into using Tweetdeck at your previous recommendation. It has helped me enormously in making better use of participation in Twitter. It helps me follow the basic formula : find a market with a need, and then GIVE them something..
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I have found some awesome answers to my questions via Twitter. And I always repay help by sending followers the person’s way for helping me. Tweetdeck is a great way to be on the receiving end of those followers with it’s search function.
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This is pretty cool. I use Tweetdeck to filter out the constant noise I get bombarded with daily so that only those who I am interested in get my attention. I didn’t realize I could do the things you are suggesting in this post. This opens up a whole new door. Thanks for doing that, it is much appreciated.
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I happen to like to use twitter through tweet deck. I never thought about the idea of getting article topics from there. Not sure on the history search you spoke of but I will play around with it. Thanks once again for the great tip…
Rgards,
Kim Dion
Check out: Monitter: twitter monitor lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of keywords and within seconds you’ll start seeing relevant tweets streaming live.. http://monitter.com/
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