One way of creating buzz within a Twitter account is to add an air of “newsiness”. Instead of just tweeting about your own business, you can tweet about news in your community as a way of showing involvement and attracting followers who are interested in that community. I created a Twitter account yesterday based on my public Google Alerts account for the Border Cafe in Harvard Square to demonstrate this The AlertRank account for these Google Alerts collects news and mentions about the restaurant and competitors, and also searches for Harvard Square and Boston news that can be used in marketing work.
I told AlertRank to autotweet all the alerts that were about the restaurant, or Boston and Harvard Square. I excluded the alerts about competitors. I also asked for hashtags #harvardsquare and #boston to be added to all the tweets.
The tweets are now appearing, and they are an interesting mix of local news and mentions of the restaurant. It is still early, but I think this will be an effective example of how an automatic Twitter account can create a sense of location-specific buzz for a restaurant.
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