Our Twitter search feature works the same way as the Twitter website search.

Quick Examples

Mentions of your company, product or competitors

We use this query to get all the tweets mentioning Mailbrew in our inbox. This way we can promptly respond to users and chip in when there are some issues:

mailbrew OR mailbrew.com -filter:retweets -from:mailbrew

This query does

• include all tweets with "mailbrew" or "mailbrew.com" in them
• exclude (notice the minus "-" in front of filter) retweets from the results
• exclude tweets that are tweets from the @mailbrew account (we don't what to get back our own tweets)

Tweets from various accounts in one feed

The query below will include all tweets from @verge, @techcruch and @macrumors:

from:verge OR from:techcrunch OR from:macrumors

Just links from a specific account

The query below will return all the tweets from @viticci that have a link in them:

from:viticci filter:links

Tweets quoting one of your tweets

Twitter does not show tweets quoting one of your tweets in the activity tab, so it's easy to lose track of them. With this query you will get all the tweets quoting one of the tweets from the frankdilo account (just replace frankdilo with your twitter username — in both places).

url:https://twitter.com/frankdilo/status/ -from:frankdilo

Explanation of queries and operators

Basic Search

If you just want all the tweets mentioning a specific keyword you can just use that keyword as your query:

Mailbrew

If you want to do an exact match (only get tweets that contain exactly what you typed to the letter) wrap your query in quotes:

"email newsletter"

Operators

OR

mailbrew OR mailbrew.com

This one allows you to combine queries and get tweets that match either the first or the second condition. It is pretty useful to track brand mentions.

This will give you all the tweets that have either "mailbrew" or "mailbrew.com" in them.

AND

mailbrew AND newsletters

Allows you to combine queries that match both of the provided conditions.

This will give me the tweets containing (in the same tweet) both the search terms mailbrew and newsletters.

Parentheses () to group operators

mailbrew ("service" OR "app")

This query will give you all tweets that include either "mailbrew service" or "mailbrew app".

Filtering by User

From

from:mailbrew

This will return tweets sent from the @mailbrew Twitter account.

To

to:mailbrew

This will return all the tweets sent to the @mailbrew Twitter account. Great to track feature requests and complains to competing products.

Filter by Language

You can filter tweets by language by including the following filter in your query:

lang:en

Replace en with the two-letter language code of your target language: en for English, es for Spanish, pt for Portuguese, it for Italian, de for German, fr for French, and so on.

Filter by Content

Retweets

Include only retweets in the search results:

filter:retweets

Exclude retweets from search results:

-filter:retweets

Replies

Include only replies in the results:

filter:replies

Exclude replies from search results:

-filter:replies

Links, Images and Videos

You can include tweets with only image/images/videos with the queries below:

filter:links
filter:images
filter:videos

Search inside urls

Using the url: operator you can search for content inside urls.

The query below will match all urls that have macstories.net in them:

url:macstories.net