Advanced Search Syntax
In SocialBro, the Advanced Search Syntax can be very useful and powerful to search with different criteria. In the search box in the top navigation bar, you can combine your search in different ways. For example, if you are searching your community for people who are from Boston and London and have in their bio Marketing or Social, you have to write the following:
location:boston+london bio:marketing+social
make sure location and bio are written in lower case.
So, the basic rules for the Advanced Syntax when searching for users 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 Name searches write: name:_____
- For Bio searches write: bio:_____
- For Location searches write: location:_____
Please note: The words name, bio and location must be in lower case
The following are examples of search operators you can use to perform an advanced Twitter search by selecting “monitor a tweet” from the toolbar:
Operator Finds Tweets……
- Twitter search Containing both “twitter” and “search” (default operator)
- “happy hour” Containing the exact phrase “happy hour”
- love OR hate Containing either “love” or “hate” (or both)
- beer -root Containing “beer” but not “root”
- #haiku Containing the hashtag “haiku”
- from:alexiskold Sent from person “alexiskold”
- to:techcrunch Sent to person “techcrunch”
- @mashable Referencing person “mashable”
- Snow since:2010- 12-27 Containing “snow” and sent since date “2010- 12- 27”
- ftw until:2010-12-27 Containing “ftw” and sent up to date “2010- 12-27”
- traffic ? Containing “traffic” and asking a question
- hilarious filter:links Containing “hilarious” and linking to URLs
- news source:twitterfeed Containing “news” and entered via TwitterFeed
If you’re searching by name, bio or location you can also use the filter menu. However, there is a feature that is not on this menu that is to search an URL. If you want to find out all the people in your community who use their LinkedIn profile in their Twitter bio write: url:linkedin. Or their Facebook profile: url:facebook.
[UPDATE] » We’ve added two more 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”.
