Here is a way to search on Twitter or How twitter search works:
| 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". |
| #haiku | containing the hashtag "haiku". |
| from:alexiskold | sent from person "alexiskold". |
| to:techcrunch | sent to person "techcrunch". |
| @mashable | referencing person "mashable". |
| "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 |
The above Data is from Twitter. Check for new entry there!
Here is the tips and tricks for using twitter in better way. It came after research on how those using twitter behave for a certain kind of tweet. So, you can use these tricks and tips to make you tweets on top of twitter world. As this is not a document provided by twitter but by a analysis of the tweets used in analysis, these depends on tweets used in analysis, methods used in analysis and who collected data.
- Using these words in tweet better your chance of getting retweet:
‘you,’ ‘twitter,’ ‘please,’ ‘retweets,’ ‘post,’ ‘blog,’ ‘social,’ ‘free,’ ‘media,’ ‘help,’ ‘please retweet,’ ‘great,’ ‘social media,’ ‘10,’ ‘follow,’ ‘how', 'to,’ ‘top,’ ‘blog post,’ ‘check out,’ and ‘new blog post.’ - Include a link in your tweet.
- Write entertainment tweets for women, opinion tweets for men
- Avoid the self-reference
- Use colons, not semicolons
- Ask for it, what? Ask for retweet, if you want. It works. But do not over use it.
- LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) analysis shows that Tweets about work, religion, money and media/celebrities are significantly more retweetable than tweets with negative emotions, sensations,swear words and self-reference.
http://www.briansolis.com/2009/10/the-science-of-retweets-on-twitter/
http://www.source-blogger.com/2010/04/top-10-secret-of-getting-retweets.html
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