Here are some great ways you can search in Twitter
- Backtweets
Backtweets??is a nifty??Twitter??search app which can search for links and short urls on??Twitter. Now, this is something that even??Twitter’s advanced search can’t do. You can use this tool to see how many??people??have tweeted a specific link. It doesn’t matter if the link was shortened using an url shortner. This tool will still show that in the results.
Nearby Tweets, as the name suggests, lets you discover tweets from local users. It uses Google Maps to find your location and then shows the tweets by??Twitter??users near you. This tool could come in handy for businesses who are looking to expand their local footprint. They can check what’s buzzing among the??local community.
Looking for a job? Then??TwitJobSearch??is a site you should bookmark. It filters the tweets that contain words like “hiring”, “job”, etc. And it does that quite effectively. Just enter the relevant search term and you are??good to go. You might just land your next gig using this site so keep a watch.
Searchtastic??is another nice??Twitter??search tool??which not only shows results that are older than those shown byTwitter’s native??search tool, but also lets you search keyword specific tweets. Louis Gray gave a nice description of the tool??here.
You must have heard of??Tweetmeme. No? You know those retweet buttons that are ubiquitous in the blogosphere, right (you’ll find one at the end of this post too). Those come from Tweetmeme. Tweetmeme, apart from showing the most popular tweets across the web, has a search func
tion that’s pretty effective.
Monitter??is probably the most well known??Twitter??based reputation management tool. It can display different keyword and phrase searches on??Twitter, all parallel to each other in a neat interface. Oh, and it’s as real-time asTwitter??is.
Areaface??lets you search location based tweets via keywords and phrases. You can pinpoint a location on Google Maps and it will shows recent tweets as well as??twitter??users from that area in a visually attractive interface.
Twellow??is a cool site. It organizes the information it has gathered from??Twitter??in a yellow pages format. You can search for services, for??people??in different professions, and much more. It’s like a complete??Twitter??directory.
Schmap Picks??is for searching reviews on??Twitter??about??restaurants and bars. It only has some popular cities in the U.S. along with London and Sydney, so it is useful to??people??only in these cities. But it’s a good service nevertheless.
Local Follow??aims to simplify your search for??Twitter??users by giving 4 main search fields – Bio, Location, Name and Tweets (if you remember a tweet but can’t recall who tweeted it). It uses??Twitter’s API and Google search to produce a list of user profiles based on your keywords.
Last, but by no means the least, is??Hashtags.org. Hashtags is a popular method to categorize tweets and this website lets you search tweets matching to a particular hashtag. Simple and useful.
Victor Haze 