Sep 19th Introducing BackType Alerts

BackType allows you to search keywords across the blogosphere to uncover important conversations that may require our participation, or at the very least, provide you with insight into critical community perspective. — Brian Solis

At BackType, we’ve been thinking of ways to make that easier. Following comments by a particular author a la Twitter was a core feature when we launched, and now you can do the same for search terms.

BackType Alerts lets you follow specific search terms and delivers results to your inbox, feed reader and Dashboard. E-mail updates are available as they happen, or in daily or weekly digests. Use alerts to:

  • Monitor your personal and corporate brand and where people are mentioning you, your products and services
  • Monitor topics that interest you so you can participate in conversations that are taking place
  • Keep up-to-date on your industry and competitors

Create an alert

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7 Responses to “Introducing BackType Alerts”

Michael Bleigh says:
Sep 19th at 8:52 pm

Great feature, guys! I've been waiting for exactly this.

James says:
Sep 20th at 3:10 am

Zaptxt has been doing this for a while and sends alerts to IM and mobile. Is there something different here?

golda says:
Sep 20th at 5:14 am

Yes. With ZapTXT, you have to specify the blogs or feeds you'd like alerts from. BackType gives you alerts from any blog your search term is mentioned on. With BackType, you're only limited by the number of blogs we've added, and we're growing every single day.

Torley says:
Sep 21st at 2:11 pm

Kewl, I look forward to trying this out with highlights like “Second Life”.

@golda: I've a feature suggestion, what about a way to show not just most followers in People, but most comments too — total, and in say, the rolling last 30 days? Would be useful + fun (usefun!) to get a better sense of who's been really active recently. (And obviously, spammers will be chucked out.) Thanx in advance for your consideration!

trendscout says:
Sep 24th at 12:34 pm

i found this just in the moment and mean, that it's a great feature.

ffxi gil says:
Nov 29th at 6:54 am

Exactly! We will be publishing a blog post soon that shows the difference between BackType search results and other services.

I think businesses should be using every tool that is available to them to track their brand. That includes BackType Alerts, Google Alerts, Twitter/Summize search, Technorati search, FriendFeed search, etc.

Web Design says:
Feb 20th at 7:39 am

This is what I need for long, becuase with so many blogs and posts it was now almost impossible for me to trace them out. I have been using a Firefox plug in for this and that add on was never so nice as It worked when it feels like getting some blogs for me only… This sounds more accurate and sophisticated.

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