![]() Read more about finding tweets in a certain language Find tweets from a specific handle The lang: command can be used by itself without any keywords, or combined with a regular search term and other operators. When searching for tweets, you can select from 62 popular languages supported by Twitter using either the language drop down in the Social Bearing advanced Twitter search form or by using the lang: operator in the search field followed by the 2 letter language ISO code.įor example lang:de would search for German tweets. Will find tweets containing ‘easter’ but not ‘egg’ or ‘eggs’. Using a hyphen with a keyword will exclude tweets containing that word (or hashtag etc) from the search results. The hyphen “-” is equivalent to the boolean NOT operator. Within any regular search, a maximum limit of 500 characters can be allowed in a search string, after the string is URL encoded (for example a space will take up 3 characters when encoded as ‘%20’ in the URL). The use of brackets are also important as they allow multiple words and operator rules to be grouped together. When compared against a search for design jobs London which gets less than 100 tweets in a similar timeframe, it’s easy to see how useful complex search queries can be. Using a Social Bearing search with the above string returns over 500 tweets within the past 24 hours. The above query will find all tweets that mention ‘London’ along with any one of three variations on job title and any one of five variations of the word ‘job’. (London) AND (design OR designer OR creative) AND (career OR job OR jobs OR vacancy OR vacancies OR role) ![]() To to help maximise tweets found, we could construct a search string using the AND and OR operators with variations on the word ‘job’, such as: Tweets advertising jobs might use numerous synonyms for the word ‘job’. Let’s say you wanted to search for design based jobs in London. Combining Operatorsįor more complex Twitter searches, multiple operators can be used together to create a single search string. The main reason you would want to use the AND operator is when stringing multiple operators together. The ‘AND’ operator can be used in the same way as OR, but the use of this operator alone is treated in the same way as a regular search.įor example searching for ‘sunrise sunset’ or ‘sunrise AND sunset’ is essentially the same tweets that contain both these words will be matched in any order. The ‘OR’ operator should be uppercase, otherwise the search will assume you were searching for the word ‘or’. For example, the search phrase #sunrise OR sunset would find tweets containing either the hashtag #sunrise or the word sunset, in any order. Using the OR operator would find tweets containing one word OR another. A tweet containing the text ‘.walk around in this space.’ would probably not be relevant to this search The OR operator In the Social Bearing search, you can select the ‘exact match’ option which will enclose the search term with quotesĮxact match search for tweets containing “space walk”Īs an example, if you wanted to find tweets mentioning the phrase space walk, you would probably want to use an exact match search “space walk”. Without using quotes, tweets would be returned for the words ‘space’ and ‘walk’ used anywhere within a tweet the default search behaviour. A search for ‘cloud’ will find tweets with the hashtag ‘#cloud’ as well as ‘cloud’ but the opposite is not true searching for ‘#cloud’ will only find tweets for that hashtag Exact Match SearchesĮnclosing keywords “within quotes” will perform an exact match search treating multiple keywords as if it were a single string Hashtags are treated slightly differently. Whole words are matched in a search and plurals are treated as if they were separate words. Searching for ‘cloud’ for example will not match tweets against ‘clouds’ If more than one word or hashtag has been search for, then tweets are matched against all search words, but in any order within the content of the tweet Destination URL links within tweets are also matched, even if those links have been shortened for display purposes Tweets are matched based on the content of the tweet not only the textual content but will include the handle of the user tweeting or retweeting. Twitter search using Social Bearing’s advanced options A regular Twitter searchīefore we get to the good stuff, lets run over how a regular Twitter search worksĪ standard search will find and return tweets that match the keyword, hashtag, handle, URL or any other string of text searched for
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