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Top Twitter Tips – part two

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NARROW BY DATE
I think this is very cool functionality as you can filter results by date simply by adding a date to the search. So for example if I wanted to see how many tweets referred to me since 1st June I use ‘since’ as : alpenwest since:2009-06-01

HOW TO FIND QUESTIONS TO ANSWER
You will be pleased to hear that Twitter’s search recognises the question mark, which is great if – like me– you’re in the business of helping people. For example, if you are a search wizard then you could try entering the following: “i need” help seo ?






SHOW MORE RESULTS
Search on something… anything. For example, search on my username. Here is the URL for the results page:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=alpenwest

If you can’t remember all of these keyboard shortcuts then there’s always Twitter’s advanced search form, but – just like Google’s ‘define:’ command – you can save time by learning a few of these to help you to quickly find what you need.

Related posts you may wish to read:

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  4. How a small business can get started on Twitter
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  • Caroline

    This is very useful. I have been paging back (I know I know!). Now I can do it properly.

    Thanks Alistair.

    x x

    • http://www.alistairgleave.co.uk Alistair Gleave

      Hey thanks for your comment i always think with Twitter you learn new stuff all the time, more top tips will be following soon.

      thanks

  • Caroline

    This is very useful. I have been paging back (I know I know!). Now I can do it properly.

    Thanks Alistair.

    x x

    • Alistair

      Hey thanks for your comment i always think with Twitter you learn new stuff all the time, more top tips will be following soon.

      thanks

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