Web Design, Functionality and SEO Tips

Thursday, October 08, 2009

Capture Twitter Searches for blog, site, twitter posts

Now you can capture elusive tweets, put them into Google doc, and publish to a URL for use on your website, blog, twitter, wherever! And, the best part is you can re-order the tweets so they display oldest to newest.

Here are the steps:

  1. Twitchats
  2. Figure out which tweet is the oldest in the search you'd like to capture and enter that ID in the Since Message ID field (you can skip this step if the hashtag is a one-time event or date specific).
  3. Run the search
  4. Create a new google document.
  5. Copy and past each page of the search into the google document.
  6. In the google document click on the Share tab in the upper right corner.
  7. Click on publish as a web document.
  8. You'll see a message at the top of the screen that says: Your document is publicly available at...
  9. Copy and paste that URL into websites, blogs, twitter posts....

Here's an example from our Firebrand Conference in Newburyport (notice tweets are in oldest to newest order so you can follow the event in chronological order): Firebrand Technologies #fire09 tweets