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Show HN: MyTweetAlerts – Like Google Alerts but for Twitter

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Currently I keep a tab active with a twitter search for [company-name], which keeps me apprised of new tweets via about my startup (the "(1)" notification appears in the tab name when there are new search results).

But of course it would be great not to have to keep tabs open for this sort of thing, and to get notifications when I'm away from my computer.

I'll certainly give this a try and see how it compares to my current inelegant solution.

Please try it - I am sure it works better as I have tried your version before. :) We offer good offers for startups. Send us a note and we will activate a free account for you as other small startups.

Thanks, will do!

Very cool! Out of interest, what are you using as the underlying technology to process the Twitter streams and store the data? Just interested how you're planning to scale and provide realtime Tweet data if you miss certain windows due to downtime, for example?

Thanks. Hosted on Amazon. Using Scala as the programming language. Sprint for payment. For the Enterprise-Plus we are developing we will support "real-time" alerts but those will still be with 5-10 min delay. We can find tweets 7 days back in time - that is the API limits. All good questions - as we are working on Enterprise-Plus we need to think about all those issues and how to scale. Some cool features you might want to know about that are supported in some plans are: - You can get email alerts for tweets that have more than X likes (discover tweets that might go viral) - You can get email alerts for tweets that have more than X retweets (discover tweets that might go viral) - You can get email alerts for tweets where the Twitter user has more than X followers. - In Enterprise-Plus you can export all Twitter users that are part of that alert and use that list for retargeting for Twitter Ad Campaign.

Sometimes I wonder why Twitter doesnt offer this itself as part of their business offerings. Twitter works as a pseudo default customer service digital desk and this is the kind of thing they should offer to aide in that.

I agree. Advanced search has many of the same features but no email. In our solution we can also create email alerts for some topics where the tweet has more than X likes or Y retweets. So you can discover tweets that might go viral.

More power to you. Fortunes can be made in the blindspots of big enterprises. Do you have any sort of in depth product tour? I manage brands online and this might be something clients could benefit from.

Unfortunately, we don't have any videos or pdfs with details but we can schedule a meeting and I can share my screen and show you the main features. Send me a note at hakon@mytweetalerts.com.

Great, that would work. My contact info is on my profile. Please save it as well.

There is already a large industry devoted to just this. It is called social listening and Brandwatch, Meltwater, Mention.com, Sysomos are just some of the big players. It is nothing new

Good idea, but instead of free trial perhaps you should have a free tier. More startup-friendly and in the long run you will build mind share.

Good idea - we are currently looking into it. We are adding Enterprice-Plus soon for big companies with a lot of extra features. Perhaps we should add a free tier at the same time.

But of course, we support small startups with a free account - just send us a note and we will activate it.

I just use IFTTT for this. Is there a difference?

I have never used IFTTT but with MyTweetAlerts.com you can for example: - Get email alerts if someone tweets about some topic and the tweet has more than X likes. - Get email alerts if someone tweets about some topic and the tweet has more than X retweets. - Get email alerts if someone tweets about some keywords and the twitter user has more than X followers. - You can collect data about some topics and then export the twitter user data and use that for retargeting in the twitter ad platform. - You can discover tweets that are tweeted at some location. - Collect or get tweets that include some topic and have links part of the tweet. - "real-time" alerts (with up to 10 min delay). - and many more features...as we are constantly adding more features.

How are you using IFTTT?

Cool idea and product. Small bug report: The landing page ends with a </html> as a text node.

Thanks. We will fix it. Thanks for the feedback. Let us know if you want a free account for your startup.

Looks like the website is down.. the old HN hug of death.

It works for me https://www.mytweetalerts.com/ - is it still down?

awesome product, will give a try! Just curious, what type of revenue numbers do you see for a small saas product like this?

Thanks - We are just starting so we don't have many subscribers yet. We are from now on going to focus more on the Enterprise customers and add more features for them. I think that could work - we will help them set up the alerts and find new interesting leads/searches that benefit their business. It seems that people don't know how to create alerts that matter. Most people just add in their brand name or add in a phrase that is too generic. When you could: - add a search for a topic that is related your business - like people asking for help with something that your business needs. - get alerts for topics that have more than X likes or X retweets. - get alerts for topics where the Twitter user has more than X followers. - collect some data and export all those Twitter users and use that list for the retargeting campaign on Twitter.

So there are so many alerts you can create for your business other than just the brand name.

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