We often need to work on searching for words, terms, links, images, or any other information about a user or a hashtag but do not know how to narrow down the search; well, today we bring you a series of useful operators for advanced searches on Twitter.
Regarding tweets by geolocation:
Include a latitude and longitude coordinate with a kilometer radius if you wish to obtain alerts for tweets in a specific area. For example, if we wanted to see tweets related to ice cream near Barcelona (a ten-kilometer radius), the alert would be generated this way (without spaces after “geocode”): geocode ice cream: 40.7064461, -73.9536163mi
If we do not know the longitudes and latitudes, this website will help:
Here are some examples:
- Second hand containing second and hand. This is the default operator
- “Second hand” containing the exact phrase second hand
- Love OR hate containing love or hate (or both). Note: The OR must be in uppercase
- Beer -malt, containing “beer” but not “malt”
- #SECONDHAND containing the hashtag secondhand
- from:selvaorejon sent from the account selvaorejon
- to:selvaorejon sent to the account selvaorejon
- @selvaorejon referencing the profile @selvaorejon
- superhero since:2010-12-27 contains superhero and is sent from the date 2010-12-27 (year-month-day)
- ftw until:2017-01-11 contains ftw and was sent until the date 2017-01-11
- movie -drama contains the word movie but not the word drama
- flight 🙁 contains the word flight but with a negative attitude
- traffic ? contains traffic and asking a question
- locomía filter:links contains “locomia” and links to URLs
- news source:twitterfeed contains news and has been entered via TwitterFeed
ice cream
lang:en contains the word ice cream but only tweets in English
Exclude Retweets
If we are monitoring for many hours, it is a waste of time to keep seeing RTs, beyond wanting to know the engagement or reach of the tweet. We can exclude retweets by including -RT in the search. For example, if we wanted to see alerts for lean UX but excluding retweets, it would be: lean ux -RT
