Twitter keyword alerts · For founders

Twitter keyword alerts that find buying intent.

Most Twitter keyword alerts ping you every time a word appears. By Tuesday you've muted them. Gorilla is the opposite shape. Paste your idea, get back the X posts that actually look like buying intent ("anyone recommend", "looking for", "ditching", "tired of"), already ranked. No firehose, no inbox swamp.

The 30-second answer

Pick a classic keyword alert tool (TweetDeck columns, Syften, F5Bot) if you have a small, stable list of keywords and want passive notifications. Pick Gorilla if you want fewer hits at a higher signal density, plus the same idea hitting Reddit, YouTube and TikTok in parallel.

What buying intent sounds like on X

  • "Can someone recommend [category]?"
  • "Looking for an alternative to [competitor]"
  • "Just spent 3 hours on X. There has to be a better way."
  • "Switching from [competitor] to anything else"
  • "Why does no one make a tool that does [thing]"

Gorilla auto-generates 20+ phrasings like these from your idea, hits the X graph, and ranks every match. You don't have to write the queries.

Why most Twitter alerts fail

Three reasons:

  1. The keyword is too broad. "project management" pings 50 times a day. None of them are buyers.
  2. The keyword is too narrow. Your competitor's brand only fires once a week. You miss the people who don't know to name it.
  3. There's no scoring. A reply from a competitor's customer ranks the same as a random meme.

Gorilla fixes all three. Intent phrasings instead of literal keywords. AI scoring instead of raw matches. Pay-per-run instead of always-on noise.

How it works

  1. You paste a one-sentence idea.
  2. Gorilla expands it into 20+ intent-phrased queries (looking for, ditching, anyone recommend).
  3. It runs them in parallel against X (and Reddit, YouTube, TikTok).
  4. Every match gets an AI intent score. You get a ranked list of tweets ready to reply to.

How founders use this

The pattern that works for solo founders: run Gorilla once a week with sharper queries each time. Reply to the top 5-10 tweets in your own voice. Track which replies get a click. Refine. Repeat. We wrote about the underlying loop in how to find your first 10 customers without a following.

What we don't do

We don't do real-time push alerts. We don't do auto-replies. We don't do TweetDeck-style multi-column dashboards. If your job is "I want a Slack ping the second someone says my brand on X", point Syften or F5Bot at it. We're sharper at the discovery moment, when you don't yet have the right keywords.

Beyond X

The same run covers Reddit, YouTube and TikTok. Often the platform you assumed mattered most isn't where the demand actually lives. Running all four in parallel is how you find out, fast.

Get Twitter keyword alerts that rank by buying intent.

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