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COMM 235: Media, Culture & Society

Twitter

Operator Function
“search term” Keeps your words in the exact order and phrasing as they are written in the search.
love OR hate Search for tweets containing either “love” or “hate” (or potentially both), as well as whatever other search terms are used.
search term -term This will search for any tweets containing the first search term but that does NOT contain the second search term.
from:username Get tweets from a specific user. 
to:username Get tweets directed to a specific user
filter:media Adding this operator onto a search will narrow the results down to tweets containing either images or video.
-filter:retweets Adding this operator with the negative sign at the beginning will filter out any retweets that may show up in the results for a specific search.
filter:links Find tweets that include any link.
filter:verified Limit your results to tweets from verified accounts.
url:amazon Find tweets that include a link containing a specific string of text.
since:YYYY-MM-DD / until:YYYY-MM-DD Show tweets that have been sent after or before the date provided.
min_faves:100 / min_retweets:100

Only show tweets that have been retweeted or favorited a minimum number of times

Additional advanced search features are available, but they require API access and some coding knowledge.

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