Do You Know WhosTalkin About You or Your Niche?
So this tool I found today which many of you may already know was a FUN one for me, but I know it'll come in handy for research purposes, too.
It's called WhosTalkin and it's a social media search engine. Link:
Social Media Search Tool | WhosTalkin?
Now I spent (too much) time searching myself. It was fun finding discussions I wasn't privvy to about me and my services.
But let's take a few examples of real niches:
Type abs into the WhosTalkin search engine and you get a list of the following results where conversations may have taken place with that keyword or phrase:
Blogs
Backtype
Blogdigger
FriendFeed
Google Blogs
IceRocket
identi.ca
Indianpad
MySpace
Plazoo
Plurk
Social Mention
Technorati
WordPress
(Now if I ONLY want to see Twitter, I simply click the Twitter link and it filters for me. So I might, as a marketer, go befriend people talking about working on their abs)
News
Ask News
BBC
Google News
ITN
Microsoft Live News
Newspad PRWeb
Techmeme
Topix
Yahoo News
(so using this section, I might find relevant news about my niche and make a blog post. For example, if dating is my niche, and I type Dating into WhosTalkin and choose the news section, I find that dating violence is a BIG topic right now. Might spur me with an idea to write or promote this type of product.)
Networks
bebo
Friendster
hi5
Last.fm
MySpace
Netlog
Ning
xanga
Videos
Blinkx
Blip.tv
Dailymotion
Metacafe
Revver
Viddler
Vimeo
Yahoo Video
YouTube
Images
DeviantART
Flickr
Fotki
PhotoBucket
Picasa
SmugMug
Yahoo Image Search
Forums
BoardReader
BoardTracker
Omgili
(LOVED this one - I love lurking on forums to see what my niche market is having full blown discussions about - you get to see their concerns, questions, advice and frustrations all unfold right in front of you!)
Tags
Blinklist
Bogmarks
del.icio.us
Faves
instablogs
Jumptags
Metafilter
MyWeb
Newsvines
WordPress
This tool is awesome because it doesn't return regular sales pages or company pages - it's more about social media conversations taking place, which is vitally important to me because it reflects the true consensus of the consumer.
See how you can use it to YOUR advantage!
Tiff
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