I’m sure a lot of you have heard of Google Alerts. It will allow you to be notified if a specific keyword comes up in Google results. It is really cool to see what other sites are linking to you and to see who is talking about you. I have alerts for ThinkComputers as well as my name. Having web alerts is nice, but what about Twitter? Twitter has become extremely popular and with its growing user base it would be nice to see what people are saying about you on Twitter.

That is where TweetBeep.com comes in. It is an alert system for Twitter. It is very much like Google Alerts. Once you create an account you are able to start creating alerts. You can create alerts by either keyword or domain name. With the keyword alerts you can have it check hourly or daily. You can also have it search for text only, which is nice because you don’t want alerts every time someone replies to you.

For the domain alerts you do not get as many options. You cannot do hourly or daily alerts, the domains are checked in real time. I wish they could be done daily, thats how I have my Google Alerts setup. One thing that is really cool about TweetBeep is that even if the domain is shortened with TinyURL or Snurl TweetBeep can still pick it up!

Once you have all of your alerts setup you can view them all to delete or make changes to them. Depending on your settings when one of the keywords comes up in a tweet TweetBeep will e-mail you. It is a pretty cool service, now you can see who is talking about you on Twitter! Remember to follow me on Twitter!