dizzysoft softwareHow Twitter Filled-Out My Basketball Brackets
Last year I used Google to fill out my basketball brackets. It didn’t do too well. This year I decided to use Twitter to fill out my March Madness brackets.
Disclosure: although I am just getting to this post now, I did the research on Monday- honest.
As a proud Jayhawk, I was glad to see Twitter pick Kansas to win the entire tournament. In fact, it predicted that all the #1 seeds would make it to the Final Four.
In addition to the Final Four, Twitter also chose these teams to be part of the Elite Eight:
Save Time in Social Media
The other week I heard Corey Creed present at SEMCLT about time management and efficiency improvement. It was a great presentation with a lot of practical tips. Before hearing Corey speak, I never thought of my Twitter App as a time-saving tool.
One of the key ideas Corey presented was the difference between “processing” and “working.” Processing is administrative tasks like checking your email and monitoring your social networks. While that is related to work, and can be a lot of work, it isn’t really work. In fact, it can keep you from getting to work while giving you the illusion that you are really working.
Get Twitter Mentions by Email
It is easy to get your Twitter mentions by email- use FeedTwit.
Here’s how:
- From your Twitter account, tell Twitter you want to get all your direct messages sent to you by email (from Settings > Notices > Direct Text Emails)
- Visit search.twitter.com, enter “to:your_username” into the search box and retrieve the url for the RSS feed on this search.
- Visit FeedTwit- which can send RSS feeds to Twitter by direct messages- and sign-up.
- Give FeedTwit the RSS feed you got from Twitter Search. FeedTwit will send your RSS feed to you as a direct message (which is how FeedTwit is better than Twitterfeed).