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#ADVANCED TWITTER SEARCH OPERATORS HOW TO#

In the example I chose German( de), you can use English (en) or any other language and search for something in that particular language alone. It returns results for a single language. social media lang:de - This one is an incredibly helpful operator. Extremely useful when you want some high quality video for your search term.ġ1.

filter:videos - same as above except it finds videos.

You can find images on your topic really fast, get in touch, use, re-tweet or just learn about them.

filter:images - shows you only tweets with images.

You can find people talking with other people and maybe hop in to the conversation about a topic

filter:replies - find only tweets that are replies.

Combine this with another term like and see what tweets went well and were actually retweeted.

filter:retweets - finds only tweets that are actually re-tweets.

The “filter” operator actually has a couple more useful uses: social media filter:links - This search will find tweets containing social media and linking to an URL, this is an easy way to find sites in your niche that are talked about on twitter. If you want to go on a rampage and answer questions on a topic in order to make your account more visible, use this operator and answer those question, nothing better than offering a helping hand while making yourself known.ġ0. social media ? - You can use this operator to find tweets that ask a question about social media for example. You can use this if you’re offering a service to search for good or bad things about your service on twitter.ĩ. Of course it has its counterpart " :(" that would search for tweets with a negative attitude. fishing - How cool is this operator, it finds tweets containing the words fishing ( or anything else you’re looking for) and with a positive attitude. You can of course change this to suite your needs to any town, any distance.Ĩ. near:LA within:20mi - finds tweets sent within 20 miles of LA. Just keep in mind though that twitter bases this upon the location of the account that posted the tweet so some of the results might not be exactly what you needed.ħ. “water park” near:“new york” - searches for tweets about water park near new york, use this in case you want to find something near a specific location.

to:marketeer - searches for tweets send to a specific person, so in case you want to track someone’s engagement you can use this.Ħ. #socialmedia - it’s pretty straightforward and pretty used in the search box so you might already know it.ĥ. So, using “-” you can exclude certain words that you don’t want to appear in your search results.Ĥ. social media -marketing - will look for tweets containing social media but not marketing. Although you might think this is useless when you first see it, think about it this way - people commonly misspell words and there are also different words that have the same meaning, so if you’re really looking for something and want to find all traces of it, this might help more than you think.ģ. social OR media - will look for any of the two. If you don’t use the commas it will look for tweets that contain any or both of the above in any order, it’s true that the first results will have the exact phrase but if you scroll down results won’t be so targeted anymore.Ģ. “social media” - will look for the exact phrase. Let’s start with the basic ones and we’ll move on after that to the more interesting operators:ġ. So let’s change that, here’s a crash course in using the Twitter advanced search operators to improve your workflow and find what you need faster.

#ADVANCED TWITTER SEARCH OPERATORS HOW TO#

They work great and help you find exactly what you need in an ocean of tweets and people every day.Įven though they aren’t hard to use, most people don’t know about them or just never cared enough to learn how to use them. One of the most interesting and underused features in Twitter is the advanced search operators.