Twitter is an invaluable tool for marketers. It is an amazing resource to get unsolicited and candid feedback about your company/product, as well as respond to situations that can be easily fixed.
However, your tool is only as good as you know how to use it. Here are 17 Twitter search functions you may or may not have ever seen before:
twitter search
Finds tweets containing both “twitter” and “search”. This is the default operator.
“happy hour“
Finds tweets containing the exact phrase “happy hour”.
love OR hate
Finds tweets containing either “love” or “hate” (or both).
beer –root
Finds tweets containing “beer” but not “root”.
#haiku
Finds tweets containing the hashtag “haiku”.
from:alexiskold
Finds tweets sent from person “alexiskold”.
to:techcrunch
Finds tweets sent to person “techcrunch”.
@mashable
Finds tweets referencing person “mashable”.
“happy hour” near:”san francisco”
Finds tweets containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “san francisco”.
near:NYC within:15mi
Finds tweets sent within 15 miles of “NYC”.
superhero since:2010-12-27
Finds tweets containing “superhero” and sent since date “2010-12-27” (year-month-day).
ftw until:2010-12-27
Finds tweets containing “ftw” and sent up to date “2010-12-27”.
movie -scary 🙂
Finds tweets containing “movie”, but not “scary”, and with a positive attitude.
flight 🙁
Finds tweets containing “flight” and with a negative attitude.
traffic ?
Finds tweets containing “traffic” and asking a question.
hilarious filter:links
Finds tweets containing “hilarious” and linking to URLs.
news source:twitterfeed
Finds tweets containing “news” and entered via TwitterFeed.
Now, I am aware that a many of these functions are available on Twitter’s advanced search page, but if you’re a heavy Twitter-user like myself, it is great to know these shortcuts.
