Sourcecon 2013: 4 Resources for Searching Twitter

Amybeth Hale, "The Research Goddess" brought the audience to on a journey as she shared her most favorite twitter sourcing tools.

During the session she talked about a few tools that I feel the need to mention so that recruiters that may be struggling to make sense of Twitter sourcing can find some direction.

Here are a few of the tools recommended by @Researchgoddess:

Tweepz:  Click here to learn more

Twitter is a fairly boring place if there's nobody interesting you are following - but it's always been an issue to find interesting people. That's where tweepz comes in! Think of us as the whitepages for twitter. Search for twitter accounts based on names, locations and keywords.

FollowerWonk: Click here to learn more

Helps you explore and grow your social graph.

• Dig deeper into Twitter analytics: Who are your followers? Where are they located? When do they tweet?
• Find and connect with new influencers in your niche
• Use super-actionable visualizations to compare your social graph to others.
• Easily share your reports with the world.

Twiangulate: Click here to learn more

2 great ways to use this tool:

1. Want to know who your most influential Twitter followers are? Love social network mapping? Want to know when two tweeps start following the same person? Twiangulate!
2. Want to find hidden relationships or linchpin players in an industry? Maybe you're looking for sources in a microniche? Or who's most followed at a conference? Twiangulate does it all!

3 Top Boolean Searches to find leads on Twitter via @Researchgoddess

1. site:twitter.com which showed you results from twitter
2. site:twitter.com [tweets or intitle:”on twitter”]  which will give you profile information
3. site:twitter.com intitle:”on twitter” [location] [keywords] –intitle:jobs  which eliminates job or career accounts, cleans out the results.