Hacking Twitter to get my tracking back

1214 days ago in Articles, How do I?, Neat & Nifty by Brent | 1 Comment

I don’t know about you but I have been going through some serious withdrawl ever since Twitter killed the track feature:

While I was out at NME this year, I started playing with an idea to attempt to get at least “some” of my tracking back. The idea isn’t perfect (yet) but it at least gets me one step closer to the track feature. At least until Twitter turns it back on (hint, hint… please guys!!) So here’s what I did:

1. Set up a new Twitter account just for me
2. Created a power search on search.twitter.com
3. Loaded that feed into TwitterFeed
4. Set TwitterFeed to send updates to my “new account”
5. Follow my “new account” and turned on those notifications

Now this (as I said before) isn’t perfect and not nearly as frequent as I would like but not being a coder or Twitter API-ologist, this was the only thing I could think of. So, until someone makes a nifty app for this (or helps me do one), this is my solution. Who knows, maybe you can one-up me? Bring it! I want my tracking back! Post your tips in the comments, I’m all ears!

Have fun & happy tracking!