Overview
Tracking trends and hashtags on social media is a great way to stay updated on the topics that matter most to you or your business. With IFTTT, you can automate the process, ensuring you never miss an important conversation or emerging trend. This tutorial will show you how to streamline your social media monitoring, giving you real-time insights effortlessly.
Enable Applets
To get started, you can enable the pre-made Applets below.
Save Tweets that include a specific hashtag to Google Sheets
If you're interested in tracking a specific hashtag or multiple Hashtags this Applet can be used to record those Tweets to a Google Sheet. Once enabled, this Applet will create a sheet titled "Twitter Hashtag Tracking" in your Google Drive. To enable it click the Applet below then press connect:
Next, Update the Hashtag to track field with the hashtag of your choice. If you'd like to monitor multiple hashtags you can add OR between them in that field which will return Tweets that include either of the Hashtags:
Additionally, you can also specify a username to monitor so this Applet will track when a specific user or users Tweet the hashtag by including from:username where username is the Twitter handle of the user you're interested in tracking:
Once you've configured that field, scroll down and click Save and your Applet will being tracking Tweets to your Google Sheet!
Add Tweets that include a specific hashtag to a Daily Email Digest
This Applet will create a daily recap email that includes all Tweets that were posted since the Applet last ran that include the Hashtag of your choice. To enable it click the Applet below then press connect:
Update the Hashtag to track field with the hashtag of your choice.
You can also include multiple Hashtags or specify a Twitter Handle to monitor specifically by following the steps on customizing this field in the above section of this guide.
Next, update the recap Email Delivery Time field to select the time of day that you'd like the email recap to be sent
Once you've configured those two fields, scroll down and click Save then your Applet will being recapping the Tweets via a daily recap email that includes links to each Tweet posted.
Create your own Applets
If you'd prefer to create your own Applets using other social media services available on IFTTT, you can follow these steps using Reddit as an example:
- Head to https://ifttt.com/create
- Click Add to the right of "If This"
- Search for and select the Reddit service
- Select the card titled New post from search
- Configure the Search for field to track a hashtag or keyword you're interested in then press Create Trigger
- Next, click Add to the right of "Then That"
- Search for and select the Google Sheets service
- Select the card titled Add row to spreadsheet
- Configure the action fields based on your preference of what information you'd like added to the Google Sheet then press Create Action
- Follow the remaining prompts to name and save your Applet