Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Twilert, a Twitter App, Should be Useful to Support Decision Making


Twilert is a free web app that enables you to receive selected Twitter tweets by email.  The tweets sent to you will have the keywords in them that you select. Twilert, which is easy to set up and to use, can provide you selected information that flows through the Twitter system.  This information could be useful to you in decision-making.

For example, many federal, state, and local government agencies now “tweet” (send out electronic messages) using Twitter.  These tweets contain information about the agencies’ services and actions that the agencies feel may be of value to the public, the users of its services and recipients of its actions.    These tweets can contain such information as pending regulatory and compliance requirements, information that is valuable for businesses to know about as soon as possible.  Twitter is a very efficient and effective method for agencies to electronically distribute important information.  And, for companies, who can benefit from knowing this information as soon as possible, using a service like Twilert could be very useful in being alerted to these tweets.

Monitoring Twitter for government regulations is just one example of what information, which flows down the Twitter electronic pipe, can be monitored by a company.   Other examples include:  software used by the company; products produced; services offered; markets targeted; retail products being considered for sale; and likely many others.

Perfecting and using skills to extract useful information from million of tweets that flow down the Twitter message pike will likely prove to provide many advantages to a company.  One easy to set up and use tool to begin monitoring Twitter tweets is Twilert.  Click here to go to the Twilert website.  Check it out.

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