Unlock the Power of Twitter with These Secret Search Tips
Save time, simplify searches, and get better results.
Looking for some quick and easy Twitter search tips? Hereâs a few you probably heavnât heard before. We even detail the legendary language operator, once thought to be nothing more than a myth! No special apps are needed; each of these tips can be used right from Twitterâs Search page.
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SAVE TIME WITH BOOKMARKS
If you run the same searches on a frequent basis, then bookmarking your searches can save a lot of time. Further dividing your searches in to folders will allow you to stay organized as well as run multiple searches in their own windows. Simply right-click the folder your bookmarked searches are in and select Open All in Tabs if using FireFox, or Open all bookmarks for Chrome.
SIMPLIFY (OR COMPLICATE) WITH BRACKETS
Twitter Searchâs use of brackets isnât as robust as how they function in regular search engines. That being said, they are very useful for looking up tweets that feature two or more keywords that may not follow one another but are contained in the same tweet. Brackets are particularly handy when using the AND/OR operators. The below example will show tweets that either mention Ford and Dodge in the same tweet, or Honda and Kia:
(Ford AND Dodge) OR (Honda AND Kia)
Perhaps the most useful feature of brackets is that they can be nested inside one another to develop long, but effective compound-booleans.
IMPROVE COMPREHENSION WITH THE LANGUAGE OPERATOR
If youâre the resident Social Media expert at your organization, chances are youâve hit good olâ Google at least once in an effort to figure out how to filter out foreign languages from your Twitter Search results. The answer youâve probably been given is that there is no such operator for Twitter Search, or that the only way to try and filter out foreign languages is by using the near: operator. As it turns out, there is in fact a language operator.
The lang: operator is a finicky thing. Typing the entire word of the language (lang:english, for example) wonât work. Instead, modifiers for the operator are limited to two-letter acronyms and include en for English tweets, fr for French tweets, ru for Russian tweets. It appears to reference language codes as outlined by ISO 639-1. But I havenât tried them all out to confirm that.
If youâre looking for tweets in a specific language that isnât listed above, your best bet is to experiment!