Using Twitter Search to #FindtheFirst

Twitter search is a not a sexy feature by any means but it still heavily underutilized by power users.

1. Twitter search can help you quickly find high quality recommendations.

A few notes here on how to best use search buried in here. — https://notes.quip.com/jgBUALiGBjwp

Thoughts earlier this year.

2. #FindtheFirst

What’s equally as interesting is to see who I know that was early in talking about a particular industry, company, idea or person. Who were the true early adopters? Who was on the “cutting edge”? What friends of mine were using the latest and greatest?

A quick custom Twitter search reveals all.

Twitter could almost spin this up and modify their First Tweet discovery page with the addition of keyword search.

Who was the first person that I follow to tweet about?

Snapchat

Slack

Burbn

Instagram

Product Hunt

kind of…

eSports

bitcoin

consumerization

drones

Uber

Zimride (Lyft)

big data

iPhone

virtual reality

podcast

YC

Myspace

Android

Enjoy digging up the good stuff. :) Let me know if you’d be curious in seeing other terms.

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You may also enjoy this recent post “Inventing the TweetRoll”

or

a new service called Hear and Now that I recently launched to provide personal Twitter onboarding and consulting for business executives.

See you on the twitters,

Ryan