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Twitter Search

How To Find The Most Popular Tweets On Any Topic

August 20, 2012

Topsy saves all Tweets, and lets you search them in a bunch of awesome ways. One of my favorite Topsy features is searching for the most popular tweets from a particular user. For example, here are the most popular tweets from @TweetSmarter about the topic “etiquette.” Here’s what that looks like for the most popular [...]

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How to Search for Tweets From Only Those You Follow on Twitter

August 17, 2012

For any search you do on Twitter, there will three options that appear near the top of the page: Top, All, and People you Follow. It looks like this: Click on “People you Follow” and you’re done. Quick and easy! Why Twitter Will NOT Show You All Tweets…And What You Can Do What many people find [...]

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The Ultimate Guide To Finding People Via Social Media

August 16, 2012

Social media is the ultimate place to make connections. Here you can find people who can: Help you with your career or business, Buy your product or service, Answer your questions, Link to your website, Promote you, Share insider tips… …or who are just interesting people to get to know, and much, much more! 1. Finding [...]

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Is Twitter Censoring Search Results? Will They Fix It?

May 10, 2012

Many people don’t use Twitter search, so Twitter has worked hard to get more “average” users to try it, particularly by putting various search results on the “Discover” tab. But for those users that rely on and regularly use Twitter search, there is a problem: Twitter search doesn’t show all tweets by default. The solution [...]

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How Twitter search got better and became useless at the same time

August 1, 2011

What happened? Twitter’s default search mode is now to remove some tweets. It’s filtered, and called “Top” search results. You have the option on a dropdown menu of choosing “All.” This is an error on Twitter’s part. “All” should be the default, with the option to choose “Top.” Instead, “Top” is forced on us. Here’s [...]

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Tips for Doing Advanced Twitter Searches

July 31, 2011

One of my favorite uses of the ”near:” advanced search operator is to view tweets from an approximate country area. Here are a few: United States: Search for near:hutchinson within:1000mi Australia: Search for near:adelaide within:1500mi United Kingdom: Search for near:”barrow-in-furness” within:500km Beware using the language filter (e.g. lang:en for english, etc) because it misses a lot of tweets. Why? [...]

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Google ends contract with Twitter right after releasing new social network

July 4, 2011

If you are one of the many people relying upon the Google Realtime Search, you will have probably found out that the service went offline 2 days ago. Your best alternative now is the Google Tweet Search with date option (example). So, just as Google’s new social network was released, their relationship with Twitter has ended. [...]

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How to use Google to search Twitter bios

February 26, 2011

Quick tip: For example, search for “attorney” on Twitter. intitle:”attorney* on twitter” OR intext:”bio * attorney” site:twitter.com To do your own search, click the link above, and edit the search to replace the word attorney with the word you want to search for. Here is another example: intitle:”web designer* on twitter” OR intext:”bio * web designer” [...]

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You may NEVER see some tweets sent to you

February 10, 2011

Can you imagine trying to sell an email service that guarantees you’ll miss some emails? Yet that is what Twitter promises. There is no guarantee you’re seeing all tweets with your username. Twitter provides three primary ways to view tweets: Mentions: All tweets that includes your @username, e.g. in our case @TweetSmarter Timeline: All the tweets [...]

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Help! My Tweets Are Missing!

November 14, 2010

Do NOT leave a comment here that your tweet count is wrong—you need to visit the Twitter page for your issue. Leave a comment only if you have already visited the Twitter page for your issue (see below for links). UPDATE: Twitter has put out updated statuses from time to time: · November 27 status [...]

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