How To Find A Specific Tweet on Twitter?
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Everyday, hundreds of millions of people use Twitter. But how many of us know how we can use Twitter search engine better? Let’s learn!
Twitter search engine is very strong. You can filter lots of things while you looking for a specific subject or a person’s tweet. Lots of researchers following economists, entrepreneurs, politicians etc. But there are thousands of tweets on their accounts. What would you do if you wanted to find specific tweets? If you are a student in economics, you should follow economists on Twitter. Those economists talk about so many topics. But what if you want to see what they think about a particular topic, such as value of gold between January 2021 and March 2021? Or if you are a researcher, you open a politician’s page and you start finding a specific subject among 10k tweets, huh? Of course not :) We can give more examples.
First way to filter a search is to use “advanced search” part. There is a difficult point. “Advanced search” is a little bit hard to use. When you see it you feel like you’re filling out an application form, it’s long.
In this article I’ll show you how some Twitter tricks make you faster and more comfortable when you want to find specific thing on Twitter.
For example, you follow Elon Musk on Twitter. And you wondered his thoughts about cryptocurrency but there are 13.7k tweets on his Twitter account. He tweets about space, electric cars, neuralink, cryptocurrency etc. How could you distinguish these topics?
1. Finding Specific Words
If you wondered what are Elon Musk’s ideas about cryptocurrency you can type:
(from:elonmusk) (Cryptocurrency)/(from:elonmusk) (“Cryptocurrency”)
It means, tweets from Elon Musk containing the word “cryptocurrency”.
If you want to specify cryptocurrency, I mean if you want to look for cryptocurrency especially dogecoin you can type:
(from:elonmusk) (“Cryptocurrency” OR “Dogecoin”)/(from:elonmusk) (“Dogecoin”)
OR means tweets containing “Cryptocurrency” OR “Dogecoin” words, if you want to search for just dogecoin you should type (from:elonmusk) (“Dogecoin”).
If you want to see specified tweets which are mentioning Elon Musk about Neuralink you can type:
(@elonmusk) (“Neuralink”)
If you want to search for tweets to Elon Musk about Neuralink by writing a specific time, you can type:
“Neuralink is” (to:elonmusk) since:yyyy/mm/dd
If you want to search for a topic and you don’t want to see a certain word in search engine you can type:
“SpaceX” -neuralink (from:elonmusk)
It means tweets not containing “neuralink” word.
2. Finding A Specific Time
I’ve told that it’s hard to find a specific tweet among thousands of tweets. At this point you can specify the dates. For example, if you want to see what Elon Musk told about SpaceX from the beginning of the year you can type:
“SpaceX” (from:elonmusk) since:2021–01–01
If you want to find tweets in more specific time, you can limit that. You can type:
“SpaceX” (from:elonmusk) until:2021–03–01 since:2021–01–01
3. Finding A Specific Location (Such as a state or city)
If you wondered what do people think about US elections in Texas from beginning of October until election day, you can type:
“Elections” near:“Texas” until:2020–11–03 since:2020–10–01
There is more specific way to limit the location. You can type near:“USA” and within:1000mi, Twitter shows you what people say in USA and people who are 1000 miles from the USA.
You can also type km instead of mi.
Lastly there is a much more specific way to find tweets by location: You can use latitude and longitude while searching for tweets.
Firstly you can find the location on Google Maps. I chose Twitter Headquarters:
After that copy latitude and longitude and paste it by writing near:…
You can use geographic coordinates like this.
4. Finding Tweets in Specific Language
For example, if you follow a multilingual account and it’s hard to distinguish different languages, you can type lang:en, lang:fr, lang:tr… I chose Alexander De Croo. He is Prime Minister of Belgium. Three languages are spoken in Belgium, so he tweets in three languages and English. I chose French language:
5. Finding Tweets With More Engagement
Likes, replies, and retweets are the most important points that show impressions. While you are searching for elections you can type “election”. However there are millions of tweets. If you want to find the most engaging tweets you can write min_replies:… min_faves:… min_retweets:…
To Sum Up
We learned how to use Twitter better. We can find more specific tweets while we searching a subject. You can find who said it, when they said it, where they said it. Those possibilities help you find particular things on Twitter.
For More Information
You can use this chart that I got from Search Engine Journal.
