Advanced Twitter Search Operators

Date: March / 14 / 2010 + Comments: 0

Since Search in twitter has become a huge deal of relevant real time information source, this special operators for advanced search are very handy to find the tweets we need. I wonder hoe twitter filters the positive and negative attitude

Operator	Finds tweets…
twitter search	containing both “twitter” and “search”. This is the default operator.
“happy hour“	containing the exact phrase “happy hour”.
love OR hate	containing either “love” or “hate” (or both).
beer –root	containing “beer” but not “root”.
#wedding	containing the hashtag “wedding”.
from:aeromentalN	sent from person “aeromentalN.
to:aeromentalN	sent to person “aeromentalN”.
@aeromentalN	referencing person “aeromentalN”.
“happy hour” near:“san francisco”	containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “san francisco”.
near:NYC within:15mi	sent within 15 miles of “NYC”.
superhero since:2009-10-22	containing “superhero” and sent since date “2009-10-22” (year-month-day).
ftw until:2009-10-22	containing “ftw” and sent up to date “2009-10-22”.
movie -scary	containing “movie”, but not “scary”, and with a positive attitude.
flight	containing “flight” and with a negative attitude.
traffic ?	containing “traffic” and asking a question.
hilarious filter:links	containing “hilarious” and linking to URLs.
news source:twitterfeed	containing “news” and entered via TwitterFeed