Using Twitter’s own search tool, you have more control over what you can search for. And you can search without needing to join Twitter.
If you simply enter the words NEW and CAR, you’ll find tweets with those words somewhere in it. Maybe you want to search for the exact phrase “NEW CAR“, just use quotes as shown.
Would you like to search near a specific city or town? Try this…“new car” near:phoenix You’ll get a list of tweets from Phoenix containing the exact phrase “new car”.
You can even shrink or expand your search area by adding within:??mi, like this… “iphone” near:phoenix within:100mi
This will search the larger metro phoenix area for tweets containing iphone.
Your search will include tweets from the last few days. But let it run, unattended, and new tweets that match your search will pop up.
Try it and see.
If you want to change your search criteria, just click on REFINE RESULTS. Twitter provides an easy to use form to add or change what you want.
Have fun with this.
