If you want to find something on the Internet you use Google right? Well, usually the answer would be yes, but if you are searching for some event that’s just dropped, like the woman who was taken to hospital from the Tiger Woods home yesterday you might not be in luck.
So wait? Google doesn’t know everything?
Contrary to popular belief it doesn’t, well at least not immediately anyway. Google will struggle to return results on up to the minute information Google generally indexes pages periodically and the types of sites in indexes such as news agencies may not have real time updates that it can pick up.
The good people at Google are giving it a good bash by setting up a Google Trends and doing things like indexing news agency websites and blogs regularly, but it still falls a bit short of the mark.
So where do I look?
Enter the unlikely search candidate.. Twitter Search! Because Twitter has a massively active userbase and the idea of micro blogging is to blog small and blog often it’s a great w
ay to track what’s capturing people’s imaginations (trending) in the now! So next time you want to see what people are saying about that episode of Masterchef or Tiger Woods’s 78th Mistress you know where to look. Take it one step further and you can even get a mashup of trends by location. What you want more? Oh alright.. check out some of these 15 more great tools to track twitter trends.
Stay Trendy Adelaide!
#1 by Peter Cooper on December 10, 2009 - 8:53 pm
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Love the trends map, and great to see copenhagen trending in Aust.
#2 by Tim on December 12, 2009 - 9:40 am
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Awesome post, it’s great to get a better understanding of how twitter is becoming a powerful real-time, honest and accurate indicator of internet usage amongst certain demographics. It’s important for us to be discerning, and moderate this knowledge against Twitter user profile studies – plus, continue to fill the gaps of understanding with other market research across demographic samples. It’s good to keep an eye on the data coming out of the http://www.abs.gov.au/ to see how internet usage trends are shifting in homes, offices, schools and public places both in city and regional areas, and by devices/mobile technologies.
Thanks for the enlightening info!
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#3 by Alana Irwin on July 28, 2011 - 3:43 pm
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Fine feed, No wonder why Christian Dillstrom shared about this story – you are doing a sweet job as mobile + social media marketing mastermind is pointing towards you!
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