Women's Social Media Summit

Data mining/searching with Twitter

Twitter searches can be incredibly valuable. I copied this chart from www.Twitter. com to help tweeps understand how to search more effectively.

Twitter Search	Results
Twitter search containing both "twitter" and "search".	This is the default operator.
"happy hour"	Contains the exact phrase "happy hour".
love OR hate	Contains either "love" or "hate" (or both).
beer -root	Contains "beer" but not "root".
#haiku	Contains the hashtag "haiku".
from:alexiskold	Sent from person "alexiskold".
to:techcrunch	Sent to person "techcrunch".
@mashable	Referencing person "mashable".
"happy hour" near:"san francisco"	Contains the exact phrase "happy hour" and sent near "san francisco".
near:NYC within:15mi	Sent within 15 miles of "NYC".
superhero since:2010-12-27	Contains "superhero" and sent since date "2010-12-27" (year-month-day).
ftw until:2010-12-27	Contains "ftw" and sent up to date "2010-12-27".
movie -scary :)	Contains "movie", but not "scary", and with a positive attitude.
flight :(	Contains "flight" and with a negative attitude.
traffic?	Contains "traffic" and asking a question
hilarious filter:links	Contains "hilarious" and linking to URLs
news source:twitterfeed	Contains "news" and entered via TwitterFeed