Advanced syntax
In SocialBro, the Advanced Syntax can be very useful to search by different criteria. In the search box in the top navigation bar, you can combine your search in different ways. For example, if you are looking in the whole community for people who are from Boston and London and put in their bio Marketing or Social, for example, you have to do this:
So, the basic rules for the Advanced Syntax are:
- All characters without spaces.
- The sign + means “OR”
- The sign - means “NOT”
- Double quotes mean you are searching an exact phrase, like “social media”.
- For searches into the Name, you must write: name:____
- For searches into the Bio, you must write: bio:_____
- For searches into the Location, you must write: location:____
If your searches are on the name, bio or location you can also use the filter menu. But there is a feature that is not on this menu that is to search an URL. If you want to find out in your community, for example, all people who use their LinkedIn profile on their Twitter bio, you can write: url:linkedin. Or their Facebook profile: url:facebook.
[UPDATE] » We’ve added two filters: by language and by time zone.
Would you like to know which of your followers have twitter.com configured in English and in Spanish? In the search box write “lang:en + lang:es”. For the languages, you must use the “ISO 2 Letter Language Codes”: ‘es’:’Spanish’,’de’:’German’,’ja’:’Japanese’,’ko’:’Korean’,’tr’:’Turkish’,’pt’:’Portuguese’,
‘ru’:’Russian’,’en’:’English’,’it’:’Italian’,’fr’:’French’,’id’:’Indonesian’,’nl’:’Dutch’.
To search by different time zones, use the same rule: “timezone:madrid + timezone:london”.
