Twitter Tips: Performing an advanced word search

A simple word search is to look for tweets that match a single word. Advanced word searches include matching a phrase, matching multiple words in any order, matching one word or another, and matching tweets that exclude a word.Searching for tweets that include a phrase If you...
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Twitter Tips: Searching for tweets that include multiple words

If you want to look for tweets (or users) that contain multiple words in any order using the Advanced Search form follow these steps:  1.  Click the Advanced Search link in any search page. You see the Advanced Search page.  2.  In the All of These Words text...
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Twitter Tips: Searching for tweets that include one word or another

You can also search for those tweets that include one or more words from a list of words. Here’s how you do this using the Advanced Search form:  1.  In any Twitter search page, click the Advanced Search link.  The Advanced Search page appears.  2.  In the...
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Twitter Tips: Searching for tweets that exclude a word

It’s often useful to search for tweets that don’t include a particular word. For example, if you’re interested in Chardonnay wine but you dislike the ones that come from Chile, you can tell Twitter to skip tweets that include the word “Chile.” Here’s how it’s done using the...
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Twitter tips:Realtime search results

Whatever type of search you perform, you see the matching tweets under the heading Realtime results for  term , where  term  is the search text you entered. The use of the word  realtime  (written,interestingly and a bit unusually, as a single word) means not...
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Twitter tips:Searching with the old Twitter interface.

If your profile is still mired in the old Twitter interface, you can still search, of course, but getting things started takes a lot more work. Here are the steps to follow. 1.  In any Twitter page, scroll to the bottom of the page. 2.  Click the Search link. The Twitter Search page...
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Twitter Tips---Protecting your updates with a PIN number

Twitter Tips---Protecting your updates with a PIN number The malicious hackers of the world are, to be charitable, a resourceful bunch, and it seems there’s no service in the world they haven’t cracked. That includes SMS, where there are now tools available online that enable evildoers to...
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Twitter Tips---Sending a direct message from your mobile phone

Twitter Tips---Sending a direct message from your mobile phone If you’re in a mutual-follow Twitter connection with someone, you can drop that person a direct message. If you happen to be running around town or stuck in a meeting and you think of something you want to tell your friend directly. you...
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Twitter Tips---Sending an update using Twitter’s mobile Web site

Sending an update using Twitter’s mobile Web site There are lots of third-party tools you can use to manage your Twitter account using your mobile phone, and you learn about many of them later in this chapter. And you’ve seen that you can also use your phone’s SMS feature to send tweets....
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Twitter Tips---Sending an update from your mobile phone as e-mail

Sending an update from your mobile phone as e-mail If you don’t want to tweet via SMS (because you don’t have a text messaging plan or the plan you’ve got is not Twitter-friendly) and you can’t use the Twitter mobile site (say, because you don’t have a data plan), it’s still possible to post...
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Twitter Tips---Configuring Twitter to nudge you for updates

Configuring Twitter to nudge you for updates If you get busy with a project or some other time-draining commitment, you might forget to keep up your end of the Twitter conversation. Hey, it happens. If you don’t want your account to get stale and you want to avoid your mutual followers nudging...
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Twitter Tips---Sending a reply from your mobile phone

Sending a reply from your mobile phone Replies are open to anyone whose account isn’t protected, so you can reply to any Twitter user from your phone. This is great if you want to send a witty retort while you’re out and about. Here’s how it’s done: 1. On your mobile phone, access the SMS feature...
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Twitter Tips--Searching for tweets by location

Searching for tweets by locationIf you use a Twitter client on a mobile device that includes a global positioning system (GPS) sensor, chances are that the client can use that information to update your Twitter location information. For example, the iPhone clients Twittelator Pro, Tweetie,...
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Twitter Tips--Filtering tweets by hashtag

Filtering tweets by hashtagYou can tag a post with a particular topic by including in the tweet the topic word preceded by the hash symbol (#). For example, if you post a tweet related to Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, you could include the hashtag #windows7 somewhere in the tweet....
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Twitter Tips--Searching for tweets that mention a person

Searching for tweets that mention a person Reply tweets always begin with @username ,but plenty of tweets mention users by including @username  somewhere within the tweet text. It could be a retweet, a shout out to someone, an acknowledgment of an original post, a FollowFriday recommendation,...
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