The Best Twitter Search Tricks

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The Twitter Archiver and Twitter Bots app fire each time a new tweet is found that match your search query. You can write simple search queries (like #Oscars) or more complex query (like obama min_retweets:10 filter:news) that uses one or more Twitter search operators.

Twitter Search Operators
Here’s a complete list of Twitter search operators that can help you perform more accurate searches on Twitter:

from:BarackObama
All tweets sent by a particular Twitter user

to:BarackObama -filter:links
Tweets sent to @BarackObama but not containing any links

elections list:TIME/time-staff
Search for tweets from users who belong to a particular Twitter list

youtube.com min_faves:100
Tweets containing YouTube videos that are favorited by at least 100 users

earthquake min_retweets:10
Tweets that have been retweeted at least 10 times

iPhone near:NY within:10mi
Tweets sent by users within the 10 mile radius of New York containing iPhone

#foodrecipe lang:en
Tweets sent in particular language (en = English)

iPhone Reviews since:2016-04-01 until:2016-04-09
Tweets sent in a particular time range (may not work with Twitter APIs)

YouTube good OR amazing OR awesome filter:links
Tweets containing YouTube videos that are described as awesome or amazing

#Emmys filter:images
Show tweets for a particular hashtag but containing images

Barack Obama filter:news
Show only tweets that mention a keyword and contain links to news websites

from:john to:peter -RT
Tweets from user @John that @mention user @Peter but exclude Retweets

family games filter:safe
Filter tweets containing adult or potentially sensitive content

tornado filter:media
Show tornado tweets containing images or videos

music concert filter:native_video
Show tweets that contain native video (uploaded inside tweet)



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