How to use Twitter to do market research

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He loves and he hates, Twitter has become one of the largest social networking sites.

Unlike other sites like Facebook and MySpace, Twitter has some useful features that make it particularly useful for studies of the market on almost any topic under the Sun. Because Twitter pages for each are visible, even those without accounts, and the site has a search function that pulls the latest posts dealing with a topic or an expression. Difficulty: easy

Instructions

1. 1

   Go to Twitter.com and make to an account if you haven't already.

Otherwise, log into your account.

2

View of "Theme trends" from your main account page.

Themes trends are those who have recently seen a significant increase in the contributions. This can be helpful to get an idea of what is list currently doing a lot of buzz.

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Use the "Search" box to give discover words or phrases that speaks to your subject, and what you say.

For example, want to know what people think of a newly released movie. Search only the name of the movie, and there are several new positions of the reactions of people probably just got back from the film.

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Take not so far are Twitter posts for each topic.

A good indicator of the relative popularity of a particular word, phrase, or topic is how many people post their topic. If the first page of search results with issue which arises on the last day or two, chances are subject are not popular. If the first page of the positions filled dieLast minute is a hot topic in red.