How to Search the Twitter Tweets

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Every day there are million of tweets being tweeted on twitter. In February it was disclosed by twitter at their blog that twitter reaches at 50 million tweets per day. Its massive and number is increasing day by day.Some time you need to search the tweets related to any specific topic or term or person like mid term election in USA etc.The two best options for you to either search on twitter which would be the 1st choice for any one and other you can search the tweets at Google real time search also.

I)Search Tweets at Twitter

To search the tweets you can go to twitter search or if you want to search in more advanced way then you can also search at Advanced twitter search. In twitter search you can type the word or phrase to search the tweets containing the word or phrase like if you want to search the tweets containing word " yahoo " just type the word yahoo and you would get the latest tweets containing the word yahoo. But most of time you have to search the tweets more specifically for which you have to go for the advance search. There are two ways to do the advance search in twitter. Either you can go to the advanced twitter search page or in normal search you can use the operators to make your search advance. If you can remember the operators then its easy to do advance search in twitter otherwise go to advance twitter search page.   

In advanced Search the search is breakdown in six sections which you can use in combination to search tweets on basis of many factors.

1. Search Words in tweets

All of these words : search the tweets containing all the words. the tweets missing any of the word given by you will not be shown in search result.

This exact phrase: search the tweets containing the exact phrase.

Any of these words : search the tweets containing any of these words. the tweets containing the word or words , any of them or some of them or all of them.

None of these words: search the tweets which shouldn't have the words given by you in the field.

This hashtag: to search the tweets with the given hashtag.

Written in : search the tweets on the basis of language. 

2. Search tweets on basis of people

from this person : search the tweets sent from the person 

sent to : search the tweets sent to the person.

referencing : search the tweets referencing the person

3. Search tweets on basis of place / location

Near this place : search the tweets which are sent near from the place /location given in the field. you can also give the distance in  kilometers or miles to search the tweets sent within from the specified distance (km or mile ) from the specified area.

4. Search tweets on basis of Date

Since this date : search the tweets sent after the specified date

Until this date : search the tweets up to the specified date.

5. Search the tweets on basis of Attitude

With Positive attitude : search the tweets containing the positive attitude sign :)

With Negative attitude : search the tweets containing the negative attitude sign :(

Asking a question : search the tweets containing the sign of interrogation ?

6. Other

Containing links : search the tweets which contain url links in it

Include retweet: search the tweets which includes RT

II)Search Tweets at Google Real Time Search

You can also search the twitter tweets through  Google real time search. Google real time search is also available in left pane under update. Real time search was introduced by Google in December 2009.It was not available to every one at that time but later on it was available to every one. In real time search the things updates as its happen on web, Like tweets, facebook updates, yahoo answers etc. 

To search the tweets for specific word or phrase just enter the word or phrase in the field and you would get the latest tweets along with the graph at top showing the tweets with time line. In time line you can search for the older tweets for specific time or day or month by simply clicking on the graph. 

By default, when you search the tweets for any word or phrase its gives you the latest tweets and its get updates as its happen in real time. You can modify your search in the left menu where you can select the tweets sent from nearby you or from specific location given in custom location field. If the tweet has conversation then you can even find the conversation between the tweeter related to tweet .Conversation includes reply and retweet .

you can also create the email alert for your search so that you can get the real time tweet updates related to your search in your email inbox.

There can be also Top links for your search word or phrase which shows the top url links mentioned in most number of tweets containing the word or phrase you searched for. Clicking on "All mentions " will show you all the tweets which has mentioned the url link.You can also go to the advance real time search same as advance search in Google search. here you can modify your search to search the tweets more specifically.

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