Last week, I’ve posted on how to use Twitter to get content. For this post, here’s the low-down on how to use Twitter’s Advanced Search Functions:
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Finds tweets… |
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containing both “twitter” and “search”. This is the default operator. |
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containing the exact phrase “happy hour”. |
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containing either “love” or “hate” (or both). |
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containing “beer” but not “root”. |
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containing the hashtag “haiku”. |
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sent from person “alexiskold”. |
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sent to person “techcrunch”. |
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referencing person “mashable”. |
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containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “san francisco”. |
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sent within 15 miles of “NYC”. |
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containing “superhero” and sent since date “2011-02-26″ (year-month-day). |
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containing “ftw” and sent up to date “2011-02-26″. |
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containing “movie”, but not “scary”, and with a positive attitude. |
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containing “flight” and with a negative attitude. |
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containing “traffic” and asking a question. |
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containing “hilarious” and linking to URLs. |
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containing “news” and entered via TwitterFeed |
Source: Twitter.com
Instead of re-posting what to do, head over to Twitter advanced research techniques 1: searching twitter from Journalism.co.uk for a brilliant primer how to combine operators for better search results.
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