Twitter Tips: 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, or whatever. For these types of tweets, you can search for updates that include a reference to a user, possibly also filtered with other search criteria.

To search for tweets that mention a user with the Advanced Search page, follow these steps:

1.  Click the Advanced Search link in a Twitter search page.  The Advanced Search page appears.

 2.  In the Referencing this Person text box, type the Twitter username of the person whose mentions you want to search.

 3.  Use one or more of the text boxes in the Words section to specify which tweets you want to match.

 4.  Click Search.  Twitter displays a list of tweets that mention the person and that match your other criteria.

To search for a user’s mentions from the Search box, use the @ operator, which you insert immediately in front of the username. In figure 6.17 I’ve put together a search query that looks for mentions of the user wordspy that contain the text RT (so they’re retweets).

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Reference : wiley.com