I highly recommend exploring Twitter’s advanced search capability. Doing so can help turn your overwhelming and sometimes nonsensical streams into manageable and strategic discovery tools. Explore the capabilities of Twitter’s interface, and for those seeking to strengthen their command of the feature, familiarize yourself with the syntax used. This guide from  Twinitor shares a substantial list.

TEXT

• 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:2010-12-27 containings

[SOURCE: Twinitor]

This entry was written by Andrew Hart, posted on September 9, 2012 at 4:03 pm.