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How to get actionable leads from Twitter in real time
- jlas 12y ago50 lines of code which calls a paid-for semantic-analysis toolkit API. To the API's credit there is a free pricing tier available.
- farhadhf 12y agoYes, but you get 1000 requests for free per day, and It's more than enough for tracking 2-3 keywords at a time.
- fields 12y ago"You'll need to download the code from Github, create a Twitter application, register a free account with AYLIEN, generate an app specific password for your Google account if you're using 2 Factor Authentication, make a copy of this spreadsheet in your Google Drive, and update the constants in the code. The whole process won't take more than 5 minutes!" This is your problem. Right there.
- Ysx 12y agoWhat problem? It's a 4 day-old open source project.
- mathgeek 12y agoI want to find the one simple trick to cramming all that into five minutes.
- listic 12y agook, how do I create a copy of that spreadsheet? I can't https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bZRFP5R6DvGTPkDrVhqyQCv8yUMsgLzFHud7kc8J1Zo/pubhtml https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bZRFP5R6DvGTPkDrVhqy...
- farhadhf 12y agoOh, sorry, I updated that link on Github but forgot to do the same on the blog post. This is the good link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bZRFP5R6DvGTPkDrVhqyQCv8yUMsgLzFHud7kc8J1Zo/edit?pli=1#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bZRFP5R6DvGTPkDrVhqy...
- listic 12y agoThanks! Next problem: can't add a phone to my twitter account; like this: https://twittercommunity.com/t/cannot-add-phone-number-to-twitter-account/32348 https://twittercommunity.com/t/cannot-add-phone-number-to-tw... I've created a ticket with support and it says they "usually reply within few days". Is there a way to set myself up faster?
- atestu 12y agoDid you actually do it? It did take me less than 5 minutes.
- aw3c2 12y agoOr just search for your product title on Twitter and automate that.
- farhadhf 12y agoThis does not give you people who are talking about your own product. It gives you people who are already using your competitor's products but are looking to switch to something like your product.
- grinnick 12y agoI've had success using Mention for this (https://en.mention.com/ https://en.mention.com/). No code necessary.
- arbuge 12y agoAFAIK, Mention just does the real time monitoring part, not the sentiment analysis on top of that.
- vpontis 12y agoThis is interesting. It seems like a very simplified version of what Socedo (http://www.socedo.com/ http://www.socedo.com/) is trying to do. They are generating actionable sales leads primarily for enterprise business. But I used the trial just as an individual, and that was also sort of fun and more useful than I would've expected!
- davb 12y agoI think a lot of the hate in the comments is around the title. If it had been "How to get actionable leads using AYLIEN", it might have been better received. As is, it seems click-baity. It's 50 lines of code, using a third party service (which is fine, but should be titled as such).
- sctb 12y agoWe updated the title to match the article.
- monsty 12y agoGith
- untog 12y agoIf more people do this then I'll just stop asking for recommendations on Twitter. When I do ask, it's because I want responses from the people I follow (and that follow me) - trusted contacts whose opinions I am interested in. I don't want to opt in to a brand new spam feed every time I tweet.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoI totally agree and I'll just do the same thing. Seriously, doing things like this is destroying a communications platform for your own short-term gain. This is very much antisocial behaviour.
- jdimov 12y agoYou might as well get off the Internet if that's your problem. Because it won't be getting any better for you.
- untog 12y agoWhy not? My e-mail provider does a very good job of filtering spam. I'd just flag responses like this as spam on Twitter, too.
- jdimov 12y agoSo you asked a question, someone went through the trouble of finding your question and answered it, with a pointer to a possible solution, and you will mark that as spam? Whose problem is that, grumpy?
- rememberlenny 12y agoI use Twitter for lead generation via IFTTT.com. I run a bot that posts Street Art pictures from Instagram [1]. The bot dominates the hashtag search term results [2]. People who find the bot, click the profile and click the URL associated with an app I made for discovering street art [3]. The bot dominates search results because it finds hashtag heavy images via Instagram. The hashtags on the Instagram image carry over to the Twitter post, resulting in an active searchable Twitter feed. The bot posts a over a thousand times a day. Since releasing the app, I've averaged about 500 downloads per month, without any promotion. It works very well for consistent passive traffic. [1]: Bot http://twitter.com/publicartfound http://twitter.com/publicartfound [2]: Search term https://twitter.com/search?q=streetart https://twitter.com/search?q=streetart [3]: Landing page http://publicart.io http://publicart.io
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- eegilbert 12y agoTwitter lets your bot post thousands of times a day without then banning the account? Via the API?
- wmeredith 12y agoI had the same thought. It seems unlikely, but not impossible.
- maxerickson 12y agoThey obviously don't care about lots of types of traffic. If you watch some technology related keyword with search, anytime some stories from that keyword hit the tech blogs, you get a spam storm of hundreds or thousands of identical, useless tweets linking the post. I guess I'm being presumptuous, but that looks like they aren't doing anything at all to limit activity like that.
- rev_bird 12y agoMy other thought is that even if I liked the bot's content, I'd never be able to follow it. I'd get blasted by the firehose.
- jdimov 12y agoThis is pretty cool for what it is. Ignore the trolls, none of them have any valid points.
- novacole 12y agoWhy not just use an already created solution like tweetboss?
- farhadhf 12y agoI didn't know about tweetboss, but they all cost something around $50-100/mo. Although it seems like tweetboss is a desktop app with $47 for lifetime license?!
- shayanjm 12y agoKudos on building something cool to solve a pain point, but unsure about the efficacy of this implementation. A list of negative-sentiment tweets about competitor products is certainly a good place to start, but is by no means a list of actionable leads. Still requires quite a bit of human interaction to figure out which tweets are actually solid leads, and is only truly useful if your competitors have only one product. You also miss out on users asking for suggestions who aren't currently using a competitor product (which IMO is a more valuable segment). A more interesting implementation is one that takes context into account, but that would require some homemade ML work and likely outside of the scope of quick & hacky solutions.
- farhadhf 12y agoYep, I agree that this is not a perfect solution, but it worked for us. I'd mentioned in the blog post that out of 34 tweets that were added to the spreadsheet, only 6 of them were solid leads. But going through 34 tweets to find those 6 is a lot easier than going through hundreds of them over 8 hours.
- shayanjm 12y agoAgreed. I think generating a more filtered list is possible - but would take significantly more time than it took to build the sentiment analysis tool. The results of the more-filtered-list-tool would be quite interesting, though, as you'd essentially be modeling a set of "ideal leads" and determining how close/far a set of tweets are to those models. Just figuring out an "ideal lead" model for the segments you're targeting would be an interesting intellectual pursuit. I think I might end up building this...
- floody-berry 12y ago> There are many people out there literally asking you to introduce your product to them so they can become your customers No, they aren't, but not a surprise that automated spam is a big hit on HN.
- akashbad 12y agoI'm working on a tool called Socedo (http://www.socedo.com/ http://www.socedo.com/) which is essentially solving this problem for businesses. We're generating leads from Twitter based on what people Tweet & who they follow. The best part is we make these leads easy to consume at scale by setting up an automated engagement workflow. Definitely worth checking out if you're looking for a more complete Social lead gen solution + no code!
- visakanv 12y agoMarketing guy here who's passionate about real conversations. Just want to remind everybody– tools, tricks and tactics should help you remove the tedious "bookkeeping" aspects of your marketing/sales job, but PLEASE, PLEASE engage people as human beings. Spamming people with stock messages is polluting the communal pool, and everyone suffers for it. When you find someone with purchasing intent, TALK to them. Ask questions. You don't need to punch everyone in the face with your sales pitch.
- farhadhf 12y agoI couldn't agree more. Sending out automated sales pitches is spamming people and that's the main reason I didn't add auto-reply feature in the code. I go through the tweets that get added to the spreadsheet and try to engage the ones who might actually benefit from using our product with my personal twitter account. The tool is here to help you find the people who might be interested in your product easier (look through 30 tweets instead of 100s). It's not supposed to/should not be doing the actual sales pitch automatically.
- willu 12y agoWhat accuracy rate have you seen in the sentiment analysis from AYLIEN? Did you evaluate any others?
- ktindenver 12y agoSimilar recipe using R, MongoDB, Python and AlchemyAPI http://www.alchemyapi.com/developers/getting-started-guide/twitter-sentiment-analysis http://www.alchemyapi.com/developers/getting-started-guide/t...
- farnoud 12y agoIt looks like marketing for AYLIEN rather than Taskulu.