Use Twitter search strings

Using Twitter search in it’s most basic form is unlikely to

provide the best results for your business…

This is because Twitter’s basic search often

generates masses of irrelevant material that

can take a long time to sift through.

There are however a number of search strings you can use within Twitter

to find better, more defined results.

Fast tracking who your business should be following

Getting rid of all irrelevant posts from search results

Saving yourself time and boosting your return on investment

Pin pointing thought leaders within your market

These search strings can provide your business with a magnitude of benefits, including:

best and most beneficial search strings that will help your business succeed on Twitter. These are:

1. Exact phrase

2. Once word or the other

3. One word but not another

4. Tweets containing hash tags

5. Tweets from a specific account

6. Tweets to a specific account

7. Tweets sent from a specific location

8. Date specified tweets

9. Tweets with a particular emotion

10. Tweets containing URLs

Lets get started…

Using this search type allows you to find tweets, posts and accounts that encompass

your whole search term in the exact order you provided it.

Simply put your search query into speech marks like so…

#2. One word or the other

This search string is designed to allow you to find results that contain at least one

It can however also provide you with results that contain any combination of the words you have provided.

To use this search string, separate your search terms by the word OR

#3. one word but NOT another

Using this search string will allow you to find results that contain one word, but do not contain another.

It is a great search string to use if your search term is often linked to another word, but it isn't a word you want to find results for.

Simply type your search query and the word you do not want to find results for into the search bar and separate them

with a minus sign.

#4. Tweets containing hash tags

This search string does exactly what it says on the tin.

It allows you to find tweets that contain a certain

hash tag.

Simply type your search term and put a #symbol at the beginning of the query.

Using this search string allows you to find tweets that came only form a specified account.

competitorsare doing!

account you want to find posts from.

#5. Tweets from a specific account

Using this search string will allow you to find tweets that were sent to a specific account.

All you have to do is enter the name of your specified account into the search bar and put

at the beginning.

#6. Tweets to a specific account

#7. Tweets sent from a specific location

This search string allows you two find tweets that were sent from a specific location. Not only that, but you can also specify the radius you want to find results within.

That’s great for small, local businesses that generate most of their revenue from their local area.

Simply type ‘Near:’ into your search bar and then your

chosen location. Follow that with ‘Within:’ and your chosen search radius.

This search string is great for finding tweets that were sent either before, or after a specific date.

To find tweets that were sent before a specific date, enter ‘Until:’ into your search bar followed by the

year, month and day.

To find tweets sent after a specific time, repeat the process changing ‘Until:’ to ‘Since:’

#8. Date specified tweets

This search string allows you to find results with either a

positive or negative emotion.

Entering your search query followed by ‘:)’ will retrieve

results with a positive emotion…

and entering your search term followed by ‘:(‘ will produce

results with a negative emotion.

#9. Tweets with particular emotions

This search string allows you to find tweets that contain URLs.

All you have to do is enter your search term into Twitter’s search bar followed by ‘Filter:Links’…

#10. Tweets containing URLS

That’s great if you are trying to find blog posts and articles!

SO THERE YOU HAVE IT!

NOW IT'S YOUR TURN TO TRY IT FOR YOURSELF AND BECOME A TWITTER SEARCH GENIUS.

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