You can create Google Alerts to receive up-to-date information about any topics or subjects that interests you using keyword search terms. To automatically send your Google Alerts to your Twitter account, you will need to use a third-party RSS feed service that is capable of doing this. If you don't already have a Gmail or Twitter account, you will need to create these accounts before you can use the Google Alerts service.
Instructions
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Log into your Gmail account. Type your username and password into the appropriate field boxes, and click the "Sign in" button.
2Open a new tab in your Web browser. Type "google.com/alerts" in the search field and press the "Enter" key. After the Google Alerts homepage loads in your Web browser, scroll down the page until you see the hyperlink that says, "click here to manage your alerts" and click it. Next, click on the hyperlink that says, "creating one" located near the bottom of the page.
3Type a search term in the "Search terms" field. Choose a keyword about a topic or subject that you want Google to alert you when new and updated information is available on the Internet.
Place quotation marks around the keyword search term to filter out any junk or off-beat alerts that Google might deliver to your email account. You can also place the "+" symbol next to your keyword search term instead of quotes, and Google Alerts will send you alert messages that match the keyword exactly the way you typed it.
4Select an option from the "Type" menu listing. Click the drop-down menu arrow and choose the option "Everything" from the menu list. Next, determine how often you would like to receive a notification message from Google Alerts for your keyword search term.
5Click the drop-down menu arrow for "Volume" and choose the option "Only the best results" from the menu listing.
6Click the drop-down menu arrow for "Deliver To" and choose the option "Feed" from the menu list. Press the "Create Alert" button.
7Right-click on the hyperlink that's shown under "Deliver To" and select "Copy Link Location" from the drop-down shortcut menu. Open Notepad text editor and paste the URL hyperlink in Notepad. Create a file name and save the text document on your desktop.
8Use a third-party RSS feed service that will automatically send feeds to your Twitter account. Follow the RSS feed service website instructions for sending a feed to Twitter. Copy and paste the URL hyperlink that you saved on your desktop in the "RSS URL" field box that's shown on the web page. Look for the "Available Services" option on the website and select "Twitter" to have the RSS feed service send Google Alerts' URL feeds to your Twitter account.
