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Guy revealed the way in which he is staying atop the crowd on Twitter and earning his massive following through hard work… with a little help from some select apps.
At about the 44 minute mark, he explains for what, and how he uses TwitterHawk.
Let’s say you just opened a new coffee store in Queens and wanted to let people know about it. As part of your advertising efforts, you could setup TwitHawk to search for things like “coffee near:Queens within:8mi” (of course you could simply search world wide if you are global).
We would then periodically (at a frequency determined by you) find twitter posts that mentioned coffee by users that are actually located within 8 miles of Queens such as
‘@cracksh0t Oh I could really go for a coffee right now’ or
‘@loxly Coffee… my one true love’
Depending on how you set your search up, the system will then either send the response automatically right then, or it will add it to your matches list for you to check over and confirm.
Should there be a match for coffee on something like ‘@coffeeh8r I cannot stand coffee!!!’ you can simply remove this from your matches list!
Check it out at www.twithawk.com
It had an incredible launch, with Guy Kawasaki of all people promoting it through his own Twitter account. Immediately there was a mass surgence in hits over that weekend, and it took no time at all to get over a thousand registered users, and about 14’000 tweets sent out to date.
Guy has also mentioned the app at a few talks / conferences / expos in Silicon valley, the only one I have my hands on so far is the below talk at JellyTalks. (head to about the 13 minute mark)
There’s also been a huge amount of press related to the app that has popped up very quickly, which you can see at www.twitterhawk.com/press
(in alphabetical order)
Drapht – Jimmy Recard
Flight Of The Conchords – Hiphopopotamus Vs Rhymenoceros
Herd, The – The King Is Dead
Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
Laura Marling – Ghosts
Living End, The – White Noise
Lykke Li – Let It Fall
Pez – The Festival Song
Santogold – Say Aha
TZU – Computer Love
The last 5 to be cut out were:
Architecture In Helsinki – That Beep
Ash Grunwald – The Devil Called Me A Liar
Dizzee Rascal + Calvin Harris – Dance Wiv Me
Herd, The – Zug Zug
Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook
For more updates on other peoples votes, check out their 2008 triple j hottest 100 votes here
The majority if the work for the admin suite is complete, there’s just one more section remaining, then the ability fir bands and artists to add their own gigs… That will be interesting!
Apart from that a lot of bugs have been fixed up in the front end, but the majority of work there won’t be completed until the design is confirmed.
If anyone wants to see a sneak peak let me know and I’ll see what I can do.
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