Twitter search is a great way to find leads and new connections to help your business grow, but using just the search box alone can yield an awful lot of noise! So let me show you how to easily filter out some noise and get a result that’s useful with advanced Twitter search.
Thinking about how to drill down to get information in your local area with keywords that relate to how people would search for your business is key. In this example we’re using shoes, but it could just as easily be auto repair, computer parts or a massage therapist. Think about searching for leads who are looking for your product or service.
Here are some examples of what you can do with advanced Twitter search.
Word Search
- Exact match: e.g. (Auto body repair)
- Any of these words: (search OR marketing)
- Any word: (allergies)
- Related discussions (hashtags): (#NPTech)
- Restrict search results to specific language (Caballero & lang= Spanish)
People related
- Post by a specified Twitter user: (thanks from:jfouts)
- Addressed to a specified Twitter user: (thanks to:guykawasaki);
- Tweets referencing a specified username: (Twitter @mashable).
Place specific
- Tweets sent near the specified location: (bastille day near:Seattle);
- Tweets sent within XX miles of the specified location: (shoes near:Atlanta within:15mi).
Date-specific search
- Posts sent since / until the specified date (YYYY-MM-DD): (massage since:2010-06-25).
Attitude or emotions
- Tweets with positive / negative attitude: (Youtube
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Search for questions: (life insurance ?)
Containing links
- links to related pages: (health care filter:links)
Here’s a quick video to show you how to use all this.
