A little, useful Tweetdeck Tip

Many of you may know this lil tip, not seen it on the forum as yet and after gaining so much knowledge from this forum wanted to try and give something back - even though I'm a relative newbie on here!

I run a hotel comparison website and Twitter is a good source of leads. I use Tweetdeck to run daily searches for tweets on 'hotels london', 'hotels new york' etc. One of the problems with this is that I have to browse through lots of competitors posting their tweets for cheap rooms here, there and everywhere before I get to the potential customer tweeting a version of 'does anyone know any good websites for finding cheap rooms in London?'

A simple way I've found to filter out most of the irrelevant tweets is to use a lil twitter language in the search string posted in Tweetdeck. Instead of asking Tweetdeck to search for 'hotels london', I ask it to search for 'hotels london -http'

This removes any tweet form your list that has a weblink within it. 99% of tweets with links within them come from competitors, spam or individual hotels themselves. Tweets with links tend to be answers not questions and as I'm looking for leads - I need to find tweets asking the right questions for my service. Tweet questions rarely have links.

So, put very simply, filter our the links from your Tweetdeck searches and you'll be left with (almost) pure leads. Hope this helps someone!