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Twitter Search: Beyond the Basics

Friday, April 17th, 2009 | Posted by Stephen Olmstead Delicious StumbleUpon Digg

In this screencast, I cover some more advanced ways to integrate twitter search into your freelance/business model. The first section is a basic introduction to using operators and advanced search techniques. The second section teaches you how to combine web services with software applications to create your own twitter command center.

Links from screencast: Welcome to the Hive Mind: Learn How to Search Twitter, TweetGrid, Fluid App, Prism

4 COMMENTS to this post

  1. David, ON April 18th, 2009

    Hey!
    Just wanted to say thanks for these great videos. Your site is rad, and I dig the fact that you seek to glorify God in what you do. God bless!

  2. Havana, ON May 7th, 2009

    I am in awe of how gorgeous and polish this site is. :)

  3. Al Stoll, ON December 19th, 2009

    I knew you were using ScreenFlow to capture screen images for “Using Twitter Search”. I have decided to use ScreenFlow myself, but I found your image of the screen at the beginning where you discuss putting a minus sign in front of root to eliminate finding root beer results, were very fuzzy, low resolution. I have a MacPro and a state of the art screen made by Mac, so the image should be much cleaner.

    We are worried that we are wasting our time with ScreenFlow as a capture and quasi-editing tool. Is this the best resolution ScreenFlow can accomplish? Is there a way around this flaw?

    Thanks, Al from Healdsburg, CA

  4. Stephen Olmstead, ON December 20th, 2009

    Hey Al- good questions! ScreenFlow is really a solid app that I highly recommend. Sorry about the fuzziness that you encountered. ScreenFlow will indeed record the full resolution of your desktop, so its entirely possible to get perfectly crisp results with it. Out of all the screencasting apps I’ve used, ScreenFlow is by far the best in my opinion.

    The reason mine may seem a tiny bit fuzzy, is because I sampled my video down a bit in an effort to 1) make it easier on users loading the video and 2) help me keep within my weekly upload limit on Vimeo. HD files (which is what this would be considered in its full size) are much larger and my upload limit on Vimeo (since Im not a pro user) wouldnt be able to handle the large upload. This is entirely possible though, and Vimeo (as well as YouTube now) can accommodate HD footage providing you have the space, time, and and computer to process and watch it. You won’t go wrong with ScreenFlow! :)

    Hope that Helps Al- thanks for visiting the site and for the comment.

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