Twitter Search Operators
Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by zevmo in Social Networking Communities, Technology
This is something that I thought people who use twitter would enjoy.
There are many Twitter-isms and specialty formatting items associated with the micro-blogging platform.
You can also check out the Twitter 101 site.
Searching for something:
| Operator | Finds tweets… |
|---|---|
| twitter search | containing both “twitter” and “search”. This is the default operator. |
| “happy hour“ | containing the exact phrase “happy hour”. |
| love OR hate | containing either “love” or “hate” (or both). |
| beer -root | containing “beer” but not “root”. |
| #haiku | containing the hashtag “haiku”. |
| from:alexiskold | sent from person “alexiskold”. |
| to:techcrunch | sent to person “techcrunch”. |
| @mashable | referencing person “mashable”. |
| “happy hour” near:“san francisco” | containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “san francisco”. |
| near:NYC within:15mi | sent within 15 miles of “NYC”. |
| superhero since:2009-10-28 | containing “superhero” and sent since date “2009-10-28″ (year-month-day). |
| ftw until:2009-10-28 | containing “ftw” and sent up to date “2009-10-28″. |
movie -scary  |
containing “movie”, but not “scary”, and with a positive attitude. |
flight  |
containing “flight” and with a negative attitude. |
| traffic ? | containing “traffic” and asking a question. |
| hilarious filter:links | containing “hilarious” and linking to URLs. |
| news source:twitterfeed | containing “news” and entered via TwitterFeed |
