17 Must-Know Twitter Search Tricks for Marketers

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.