Twitter search secrets (Find/Filter/Exclude beyond Advanced Search)
Twitter is a massively popular micro-blog platform where people go on to share their mind. Statistics show that there are 6,000 tweets ever second. This amounts to around 500 million tweets a day, and that’s a lot. As a user you can converse with users, find users around your location and trending topics.
Twitter allows users to share moments fast, which often results in news circulating on the platform before news networks publish it. If you want to market your product or services on Twitter, you have to know the secrets of the trade to stay ahead of the competition. You can opt to use tools which costs substantially more that what individuals can afford. We are going to share some Twitter search filters that is going to make monitoring, filtering, and reducing spam on your search for making it easy to find targeted leads and demographic.
The search filters can be stacked but stacking too many search filters greatly limits the number of results you can achieve. It depends on the results you are specifically looking for. If that’s the case, then even a few results may be acceptable
The Basics
| Search Query | Results |
| linuxmint | Shows tweets containing linuxmint |
| #linuxmint | Shows tweets containing the hashtag |
| “linux mint” | Shows tweet exactly matching linux mint |
| -venmo | Adding a ‘-’ sign tells twitter to filter out the word accompanying it |
| -“cash app” | Excludes tweets containing exactly “cash app” |
Include/Exclude by content and content type
| Search Query | Results |
| filter:media | Shows tweets with content containing video and images |
| filter:images | Shows tweets with images |
| filter:videos | Shows tweets with videos |
| filter:links | Shows tweets with links |
| -filter:media | Shows tweets without video and images |
| -filter:images | Shows tweets without images |
| -filter:videos | Shows tweets without videos |
| -filter:links | Shows tweets without links |
| exclude:links | Exclude tweets that contain links |
| exclude:retweets | Excludes tweets that are retweets |
| exclude:replies | Exclude replies and shows only original tweets |
| exclude:mentions | Exclude tweets mentioning other users |
| exclude:hashtags | Exclude tweets with hashtags |
User filters
| Search Query | Results |
| from:Weblle | Shows tweets from user Weblle |
| to:Weblle | Shows tweets mentioning user Weblle |
| -from:@weblle | Filters tweets from the weblle user |
| filter:verified | Only shows tweets from verified users |
| list:weblle/social | Shows tweets from social list by weblle |
Sources
these need to be be accompanied by a keyword
| Search Query | Results |
| instagram.com | Shows content containing links from Instagram |
| source:Facebook | Shows content directly shared from Facebook |
| source:”Zoho Social” | Shows content shared from the Zoho Social Application |
| source:”Twitter Web App” | Shows content shared from a browser |
| source:”Twitter for iPhone” | Shows content sent from the Twitter app on Apple iPhone/iOS |
| source:”Twitter for Android” | Shows content sent from the Twitter app on Android |
Activity filter
| Search Query | Results |
| min_retweets:3 | Shows tweets which were tweeted more than 3 times |
| min_faves:3 | Shows tweets which were favorited more than 3 times |
| min_replies:3 | Shows tweets containing at least 3 replies |
Language
| Search Query | Result | Search Query | Result |
| Arabic | lang:ar | Italian | lang:it |
| Chinese(Simplified) | lang:zh-cn | Japanese | lang:ja |
| Chinese(Traditional) | lang:zh-tw | Korean | lang:ko |
| Danish | lang:da | Malayalam | lang:ml |
| Dutch | lang:nl | Norwegian | lang:no |
| English | lang:en | Polish | lang:pl |
| Filipino | lang:fil | Portuguese | lang:pt |
| Finnish | lang:fi | Russian | lang:ru |
| French | lang:fr | Spanish | lang:es |
| German | lang:de | Swedish | lang:sv |
| Greek | lang:el | Tagalog | lang:tl |
| Hindi | lang:hi | Tamil | lang:ta |
| Hungarian | lang:hu | Thailand | lang:th |
| Indonesian | lang:id | Turkish | lang:tr |
Time
| Search Query | Results |
| since:2019-08-17 | Shows tweets after the listed date |
| until:2017-01-27 | Shows tweets before the listed date |
Utilize the above mentioned search filters creatively and you will find your Twitter search results to be less cluttered which allows you to interact with the right people for your business marketing.
These search queries work in Twitter web application or any twitter application that supports twitter search. So you can get the most out of the app functionality with Twitter functionality as well. Some third party twitter apps support saving a twitter search query and we believe it could make it very convenient to find what you are looking for every time you open the app.
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