How To Use Twitter Search
Don’t overlook Twitter Search as an easy twitter tool. You’ll always get current results and this simple but effective and powerful tweet tool is already built in. And of course it’s free.
First, log into your twitter profile. Then, just do a simple search like ‘tweet adder’. Twitter will do a very quick search and give you back a page full of ‘realtime results’ for your search term.
Look over the list of results and add whatever friends you want by clicking on the user name to visit their profile.
Click on ‘Reply‘ to retweet the tweet. It’s a good way to get noticed by the original tweeter who is more likely to retweet your own tweets.
The ‘View Tweet‘ link is kind of useless for your purpose, but you could use it to view the background of the tweeter.
You can also click on the ‘Tweet these results‘ link in the top right corner. You’ll be brought to your account with the suggested tweet “Searched Twitter for tweet adder: http://tinyurl.com/yzfgxc6″ already filled in. Modify it to whatever you want to say and click update to tweet it.
Another handy but overlooked link on the search results page is the ‘Feed for this query‘ link on the top right directly above the tweet these results link. You can use this link in any number of creative ways. For instance, use this link to make automated blog posts.
If you are really dedicated, use the ‘Show tweets written in‘ to get foreign language post for Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and even Thai.
To try and insert yourself into the main stream of public interest, by all means use the ‘Trending topics‘ list link and tweets. Don’t be surprised when one of topics search results page gives you a message like ’346 more results since you started searching’ appears and suggests that you ‘click on the ‘Refresh‘ link to see them. If you don’t refresh the results it will keep refreshing the numbers indicator for you. Way cool!
