So, what can you do with search operators? Here are several examples: Geographic searches Of course, you will need to adapt every time to see what works best, based on the event you’re covering and the region in which it’s happening.
A geographical search will be nearly useless if it’s not combined with a few keywords and a limit on the number of retweets, for example.
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To benefit from the full power of using search operators, you should always try to combine them. TweetDeck is often a bit slow, which can become frustrating when you need to modify complex searches several times before finding the right results. It is more efficient to create and refine your searches in Twitter and, once you are satisfied, paste them into the search bar in TweetDeck. To run your searches, I recommend that you bookmark and use this page. More importantly, search operators allow you to create searches in Twitter that actually can’t be done solely using TweetDeck. First, it means that if TweetDeck was to shut down or become unusable for some reason, you could still easily switch to another tool to create complex (and effective) searches. Knowing these search operators has several advantages. A column created to only show tweets with images is the same as typing “filter:images”, and so on. Creating a TweetDeck column that only shows tweets with more than 10 retweets is the same as typing “min_retweets:10” in the Twitter search bar. What you may not know is that all those possibilities are in fact search operators that you can recreate in a standard Twitter search. You can define a minimum number of retweets, exclude users from results, limit results to a specific language or limit by specific media (only images, for example). TweetDeck allows you to create columns of searches while giving you – on the surface – many more options for customising those searches than Twitter provides. If not, do check out this video for an introduction. You may also know about and use TweetDeck. Operators such as “AND” (to specify that you want all the words to be searched), “OR” (to specify that you want one or the other word to be searched) or using brackets (to search for a full expression) can be used in Google, Bing and Yahoo, as well as Twitter. You are probably already familiar with at least the most basic of those “commands”, because some of them are shared among the vast majority of search engines. This term refers to characters, or strings of characters, that tell the engine to search in a specific way. In this piece, I will focus on a crucial aspect of successful search on Twitter: search operators. First Draft frequently mentions the importance of setting up proper searches for newsgathering, and more precisely how TweetDeck can be a very powerful tool to monitor news on Twitter.
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