I'm stymied. For many, many years one of the top values of my blog was the ability to evaluate and try some of the searches that you ... my visitors used to find me (actually the topics of my posts). I learned very early on that there was huge value is examining how folks got to the same endpoint. Many of you think up unique and intriguing ways to use various keywords while conducting a search on a given topic. Via my blogs stats I can rerun your searches and examine the results you originally obtained, and get the benefit of your thought process and results.
My dilema is Twitter and Twitter Search don't work the same way. I can not figure out any way to track Twitter Searches which end up with a given result. While there are ways to examine popular trends, I want to examine how folks found the same topics on interest to me. Once again, over the years one of the best ways was to blog on a subject and wait. Google Search rarely let me down. If there is a way I can track my own Tweets and how they appear in Twitter statistics which allow me to determine the keywords, I can't figure out how.
I would love some help. Anyone know how?
Post Update: Thanks to all the folks who contacted me with ideas. See my next post (Twitter Search Results ... Part 2). I think I found something that works!
I use link concatenators to watch my statistics (bit.ly has tracking if you register on their website and don't use the built in link-shortening for twitter), but that's pretty basic. Personally? I don't think people use twitter search to find my stuff that often. Could just be me, I don't know. But I really view twitter as a chaotic mess that people sometimes click through to my site. Most often when I am the one posting the link (but only for the brief window that the link appears near the top of peoples' feeds). If you find out a way to watch twitter searches, I would be interested in finding out how they work.
~Chris Gammell
Posted by: Chris Gammell | August 20, 2009 at 06:52 AM