BackTweets ~ Interested in Who's Talking About Your Website or Brand

Are you on Twitter? Do you have a website or do you Blog? If so are you interested in seeing who may be talking about you? I found this and wanted to share it with you in case your not familiar with it. BackTweets is a search engine for links on Twitter. Enter a URL (the service will auto-resolve shortened ones) and see the conversations and tweets that reference that link. I can see where a lot of businesses would use this service to keep track of conversations about their brand or products. By setting up email (takes 1/2 a minute) you can also receive pretty much up to the minute alerts. BackTweets.com/alerts

At first I was a little skeptical in searching through all the tweets about a specific site. I was looking for a particular day and time frame and didn't want to spend an hour or two clicking the next button to get there. Then I noticed that there is an advanced search that takes care of that for us too. You’re able to filter link searches by date (going back approx.12 weeks), as well as the user that tweeted and the user the tweet was in response to. These parameters are also available in the BackTweets API for advanced users. And now there’s a tweet counter at the bottom of the search results so you can see exactly how many times the URL you searched for has been tweeted.

(Founders of BackType @michaelmontano and @golda, created BackTweets. It's a small side project they spun out of backtype.com/connect.)