Okay, I admit it.  I’m important to me.  But for businesses, many things are important.  Your brand, your products, mentions of things within your industry.

TweetBeep allows you to enter search strings that are run at regular intervals and, if there is a hit, it mails them to you.

You simply enter the search string and whether you want it to send you information every hour or every day.

You can even search for information from specific users or to specific users, as well as tweets in a specific location.

If you own a restaurant with a fairly common name, you can only search tweets from people in the area.

TweetBeep can help automate your data mining and market research efforts on Twitter.

A very handy, free tool all the way around.

Jim Benson is a partner at Modus Cooperandi and blogs at Evolving Web. Jim is a management consultant who uses social media tools and principles to help his clients communicate. Follow him on Twitter.