Okay, Tweeters, now you never have to leave Twitter to get 411 info about movies, local haunts, tweeple, reverse # lookup and directions via a tweetable service from Superpages. After you tweet @sp411, you get 5 answers via Twitter.
Superpages can now be searched through Twitter @sp411.
The new sp411 Twitter Bot was introduced earlier this month and allows
"Tweeple" to search Superpages.com through Twitter by drect
message.
How it works:
1. Follow sp411on Twitter.
2. Tweet your search as a direct message: something like... "d sp411
Italian San Francisco" or "d sp411 pizza 75261"
3. Up to five results are being sent back to you as
direct messages.
The direct messages provide the business name, address, phone number,
and a link for more information that takes you to the business'
SuperPage business profile on Superpages.com. On the business' SuperPage
consumers can view ratings and reviews, pictures and videos,
specialties, menus and list of services, hours of operation, and much
more.
"In what is a first to my knowledge," said leading mobile search analyst Greg
Sterling, Founder, Sterling Market Intelligence and Senior Analyst
for Local Mobile Search, "Superpages has brought true local search to
Twitter through sp411. Twitter users can now conduct searches of the
Superpages database and get results as direct messages on Twitter to
their local queries. They can also retweet and share them, which makes
it that much more interesting."
"We are aggressively bringing Superpages.com's local business
information to where the users are," said Peter Schwab, Director of
Mobile at Superpages.com. "As social media advances consumers use a
variety of platforms. So whether you are using an iPhone
app, a BlackBerry
app, widgets,
gadgets
or Twitter, Superpages.com will be brought to you and finding local
businesses will be easy and efficient."
Now if that isn't handy enough, the sp411 Twitter Bot also provides
search capabilities for:
- Local Weather: "d sp411 weather Chicago"
- Movies: "d sp411 movies (street) (city) (state) (zip)"
-
People: "d sp411 (last name, first name OR first name last name)
(street) (city) (state) (zip)" - Reverse Phone Number Lookup: "d sp411 (phone number)"
-
Walking or Driving Directions: "d sp411 (walking directions OR
directions) from (address 1) to (address 2)
"A version of local search has existed on Twitter for some time: asking
your followers for local recommendations about places to stay, things to
do and so on. One can also use Twitter search itself, though it's very
hit and miss in terms of the quality of results," said Sterling. "The
[sp411] service proves to be quite useful especially if you're looking
for a specific business phone number or address."
Follow us on Twitter at Twitter.com/sp411.