twilert

Keywords

• Type: giants game. Twitter will search for all tweets that contain "giants" and "game" in them
• Type: "giants game". Twitter will search for the specific term "giants game"
• Type: giants OR game. Twitter will search for any tweet that contains either "giants" or "game"
• Type: giants -New York. Twitter will search for any tweet with the term "giants" without references to New York, so this would be helpful if you followed the baseball team from San Francisco but not the football team in New York

People Search

• Type: @twilert. Twitter will search for tweets referencing the Twilert Twitter handle
• Type: from:twilert. Twitter will search for tweets from Twilert
• Type: to:twilert. Twitter will search for all tweets directed at Twilert (messages that put our name at the front of the tweet)

Reduce Repetitions

One of the most common way to use Twitter search is to search for hashtags (#topicname) or product names. But the results are very often filled with identical tweets.

So if you want to search for anything about 'American Airlines' but without the re-tweeted stuff: "american airlines" -rt -via