How To Use Twitter As A Search Engine

Twitter can be viewed as millions of publically-viewable conversations about pretty much any topic under the sun. And because these are actual human discussions, occuring in real time, that we can evesdrop on, it creates an amazing opportunity for those in the know.

Rather than searching the search engines for a keyword phrase where you will likely discover the websites created by people with the most SEO knowledge, you can instead search real-time conversations for what you are interested in.

To use the service you just need to head over to http://search.twitter.com.

Here you can search for real conversations and then either respond to those conversations yourself or start following those people regularly tweeting about the subjects you are interested in.