I've always used the advanced options in Twitter's search, but still feel it doesn't help with finding people I'm interested in following.
As an example ... if I want to find people who are interested in graphic design, I want to look for people who have the term "graphic design" in their bio. Words that show up in a person's bio have far better relevance than something mentioned in a tweet.
Why is it, only third party tools are the only places you can do a search with in the bio for text? Perhaps I'm missing something, (if so please let me know) but Twitter should make it easier to locate "relevant" like minded people. This lack is the reason many newcomers abandon Twitter too early, they don't understand how to link up with people who share their same interests.
Oh, and I believe there is still a limit of 24hrs when trying to find people in your home town. As in when you search with a location and with in a specified range of said location, you will only get hits for people who have tweeted in the last 24 hrs. One could argue that people who don't tweet at least once per 24 hrs are not worth following, but how many people may have skipped a day or two?
For that reason I prefer to use http://tweepz.com ... other than the lack of bio text searching, I think the advanced search tips you mentioned are great.
Thanks ... Scott
Webcastr
· 3 months ago
We started using the detailed search widget a few weeks ago and were very surprised by seeing results we didn't even know about (not just RTs, for example, but ppl who are grabbing stuff from our main site and adding to their feeds w/o us knowing. Anyone who is interested can take a look at the implementation on this page, but let it load and watch it scroll for the best result.
my problem with the saved search results is that i am unable to delete them!!
mokshjuneja
· 3 months ago
i am still unable to figure out that as to why we cant delete the saved search result terms!
usmanaziz
· 3 months ago
Twitter is becoming a large reservoir of information. These advanced search features are really needed to search through. But still, it needs to be made better
ka
· 3 months ago
We cannot search for old tweet (> 1 month)
doruman
· 3 months ago
Thank you for all these quality details about advanced search option. So as Google recognize, people search for more specific results; more and more expressions and words combinations are stored by Google and Twitter search engine implemented the Advanced Search Interface as a natural result of all these statistics.
whatawebsite
· 3 months ago
Hi Barb , I didn't know you could do all that with advanced search. Useful stuff, thanks & best wishes from hamburg Will
Liz, thanks so much for bringing this to our attention.
wheresbill
· 3 months ago
Is there a way to filter the search to people I'm already following? Sometimes I read a tweet weeks ago but forget who wrote it. Like today :)
AceNewsService
· 3 months ago
These are excellent and a well written from Barb these features are useful from the point of utilisation of obtaining a more in depth way of using twitter. Having tried out and tested various twitter applications and sites at present l use seesmic and tweetmeme on my igooglepage but none have facilities like these, thanks again G
Alison
· 3 months ago
Awesome article. Thanks for the search tips! Of course, if Jay Leno is right, social media is all "useless babble" and there's no point searching it anyway....
Well, it will be -- when search results cover all twitters. Not happening now. There are a lot of accounts that simply do not show in search results.
ssaadahmed
· 3 months ago
Fantastic stuff. I feel similar to what I felt the first time I tried my hand at " power searching" on Google. The search widget is surely going to be on my blog!
Robert K. Mccann
· 3 months ago
Looking for specific tweets on twitter is one of the best tools that we have right now under going in our business, as you can follow reactions or comments on any subject, which will be useful for knowing any market. Is like a market research already made. Just as http://www.GainOpinion.info kind of service
coolsat
· 3 months ago
THis is really nice information. I am going to use the twitter search now, and will post the feedback asap.
Thank you for this mine of info on Twitter. Two questions: 1) If you set up a search, will it continue to be performed on a daily basis w/out intervention? ; and, 2) Where do I find the Advanced Search when I'm on my home page? You just gave the link here, but didn't show where to locate it when on Twitter. . .
Shari Weiss
· 3 months ago
Love the badge, but I don't seem to be able to set up more than one, i.e., so I can have two search streams going at same time???
lynn
· 3 months ago
I've done a number of searches and saved them, but the minute my page is refreshed, the search label disappears and I can't get it back. Help please
Alexander Grundner
· 3 months ago
Anyone know if you can do a search by a tweet's status number to see who's replied and follow the conversation? Best third-party tool I can find is http://tweader.com/ , but that doesn't work as well I hoped it would.
Mahesh Asolkar
· 3 months ago
Searching tweets written in a particular language is 'persistent' - as a result, it cannot be specified in the search query. I find it hard to write search queries in Twitter clients like HootSuite (or any other, I am sure), that restrict tweets written in English.
Is there a way?
Guest
· 3 months ago
Thanks for sharing this informative posts to us. This will be very helpful esp to social media gurus and internet marketing experts.
I can save a search, but when I try to comment and add my thoughts, my update never comes up in the real time if at all. Am I leaving something out? I add the # thing, it looks like it will work, I click update but it only shows on my own homepage. Trying to connect with others on a top and cannot. Can't get an answer from twitter.
oppo
· 1 month ago
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As an example ... if I want to find people who are interested in graphic design, I want to look for people who have the term "graphic design" in their bio. Words that show up in a person's bio have far better relevance than something mentioned in a tweet.
Why is it, only third party tools are the only places you can do a search with in the bio for text? Perhaps I'm missing something, (if so please let me know) but Twitter should make it easier to locate "relevant" like minded people. This lack is the reason many newcomers abandon Twitter too early, they don't understand how to link up with people who share their same interests.
Oh, and I believe there is still a limit of 24hrs when trying to find people in your home town. As in when you search with a location and with in a specified range of said location, you will only get hits for people who have tweeted in the last 24 hrs. One could argue that people who don't tweet at least once per 24 hrs are not worth following, but how many people may have skipped a day or two?
For that reason I prefer to use http://tweepz.com ... other than the lack of bio text searching, I think the advanced search tips you mentioned are great.
Thanks ... Scott
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Nice article, as usual.) @webcastr
I didn't know you could do all that with advanced search.
Useful stuff, thanks & best wishes from hamburg
Will
Caught on Video: Jay Leno disses Twitter:
http://www.boalt.com/blog/2009/09/jay-leno-and-...
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---【】 http://www.uspopularbiz.com 【】
----------------------【】 http://www.uspopularbiz.com 【】
----------------------------------------------【】 http://www.uspopularbiz.com 【】
--------------【】 http://www.uspopularbiz.com 【】
http://www.uspopularbiz.com/productlist.asp?id=s70 【t-shirt】
http://www.uspopularbiz/productlist.asp?id=s5 【Timberland】
http://www.uspopularbiz/productlist.asp?id=s12 【jordan】
http://www.uspopularbiz/productlist.asp?id=s14 【DUNK】
http://www.uspopularbiz/productlist.asp?id=s29 【air max】
http://www.uspopularbiz/productlist.asp?id=s32 【women boot】
http://www.uspopularbiz/productlist.asp?id=s75 【Jean】
http://www.uspopularbiz/productlist.asp?id=s69 【handbags】
http://www.uspopularbiz/productlist.asp?id=s3 【NBA Jersey】
http://www.uspopularbiz/productlist.asp?id=s76 【Jacket】
i have never used this feature
i am gonna give it a try
thanks for your post