Twitter Commands You Did Not Know
Well , these days everyone is a twitter addict. Even I am:) You can follow me here. So below are the coolest commands which you can use it with twitter!
Let’s skip the basics. I assume you already know how to reply (@username), direct message (D username), retweet (RT @username) and so on.
NON SEARCH COMMANDS
Try entering the following commands into the Twitter ‘post’ field, rather than as a search query. Results will appear in a dropdown overlay at the top of your Twitter feed…
1)GET username
This simply grabs the last tweets from a user, for example if you ‘tweet’ ‘GET lakey’ you’ll be presented with my last tweet (and you won’t actually tweet anything).
2)WHOIS username
A quick way of checking out a user is to use the WHOIS command. Tweet ‘WHOIS lakey’ and you’ll see the following, in a dropdown (and once again, you won’t tweet anything yourself)
3)FAV username
This adds the last tweet by that user to your favourites.
Well in years to come I feel twitter search will be one of the ultimate resources of information. Well below are the few search tweeks you can try with twitter search
THE JOY OF TWITTER SEARCH
1)FROM
To see the tweets I have sent simply enter the following query: ‘from:pradeep1288’
2)TO
Who has been publicly messaging me recently? Find out by searching for TO:pradeep1288
3)CITATIONS
Pretty straightforward, I know, but you can search for ‘@pradeep1288‘ to see tweets where I have been mentioned. Includes retweets, rather than tweets aimed directly at me.
In the same way that you can use various commands and operators in Google to filter results, you can tweak Twitter search queries so that only relevant results are returned…
4)EXACT MATCH
Just like in Google you can wrap around some quotation marks to return exact phrases, such as:
5)EITHER / OR
Consider the above example. Since Twitter is character limited some of those Captain Beefheart fans might simply refer to him as ‘beefheart’. To look for both variations type in the following query:
“captain beefheart” OR “beefheart”
6)NOT / MINUS / AVOID
Use the ‘NOT’ command by adding a hyphen / minus sign. So if you want to find the captain but avoid the beefheart, and I can’t think why you would, then you can use this:
7)GO LOCAL
This is pretty cool. You can filter tweets by location, to only show search results near to you. For example, you can see what people are wishing for near London.
8)GO HYPERLOCAL
If the above example isn’t enough then why not target your search query by distance. You can ringfence results by applying a ‘distance’ parameter:
“I wish” near:London within:5km
And hey, it even does imperial measurements too… replace kilometers with miles if you want to annoy the Eurocrats:
“I wish” near:London within:5mi
9)NARROW BY DATE
If you need to filter results by date then you can add a range of date operators to your search query. For example, if I wanted to check out how many tweets have referenced Econsultancy in the past week (more than 1,400 as it happens) I can use the ‘SINCE’ command:
Alternatively I can look up tweets containing the word ‘Econsultancy’ up UNTIL 23 June as follows:
10)FIND QUESTIONS TO ANSWER
Twitter’s search tool recognises the question mark, which is great if – like us – you’re in the business of helping people. For example, if you are a search wizard then you could try entering the following:
11)FIND LINKS
Use the FILTER:LINKS command to unearth tweets with third part links. I like listening to Animal Collective whenever possible and can often be found hunting for pointers:
“Animal Collective” filter:links
At this stage you might want to remember the NOT / MINUS command [-], since we’re not really interested in seeing all those spammy blip.fm links:
“Animal Collective” filter:links –blip.fm
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