What’s New from Twitter ~ the Widget!
Posted on Monday, July 27th, 2009
Twitter just released a new widget designed to pull targeted information. In its simplest form one can easily add a dynamic scroller of twitter feeds specific to ones city, town. That just scratches the surface of what the widget can pull in and display.
Twitter’s Search widget makes use of Hash Tags and key words, focused by AND/OR operators. Lets use Oprah Winfrey for an example. Searching the hash tag #oprah gives us all tweets that specifically use the oprah hash tag. Adding in OR #oprahwinfrey will then display all tweets with either #oprah or #oprawinfrey. The following is a list of search operators supported by twitter:
Search Operators
You can type these search operators directly into the search box. (Alternatively, you can use the advanced search form to automatically constuct your query.)
| Operator | Finds tweets… |
|---|---|
| twitter search | containing both “twitter” and “search”. This is the 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”. |
| “happy hour” near:“san francisco” | containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “san francisco”. |
| near:NYC within:15mi | sent within 15 miles of “NYC”. |
| superhero since:2009-07-26 | containing “superhero” and sent since date “2009-07-26″ (year-month-day). |
| ftw until:2009-07-26 | containing “ftw” and sent up to date “2009-07-26″. |
| movie -scary :) | containing “movie”, but not “scary”, and with a positive attitude. |
| flight :( | containing “flight” and with a negative attitude. |
| 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 |
