Search interface usage tips
• keyword1 OR keyword2
• min_faves:2000
• min_retweets:2000
• filter:links
• filter:images
• until:YYYY-MM-DD
• since:YYYY-MM-DD
• near:location within:15mi
| Class | Operator | Finds Tweets… | Eg: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tweet content | nasa esa (nasa esa) | Containing both "nasa" and "esa". Spaces are implicit AND. Brackets can be used to group individual words if using other operators. | 🔗 |
nasa OR esa | Either "nasa" or "esa". OR must be in uppercase. | 🔗 | |
"state of the art" | The complete phrase "state of the art". Will also match "state-of-the-art". Also use quotes to prevent spelling correction. | 🔗 | |
"this is the * time this week" | A complete phrase with a wildcard. * does not work outside of a quoted phrase or without spaces. | 🔗 | |
+radiooooo | Force a term to be included as-is. Useful to prevent spelling correction. | 🔗 | |
-love -"live laugh love" | - is used for excluding "love". Also applies to quoted phrases and other operators. | 🔗 | |
#tgif | A hashtag | 🔗 | |
$TWTR | A cashtag, like hashtags but for stock symbols | 🔗 | |
What ? | Question marks are matched | 🔗 | |
:) OR :( | Some emoticons are matched, positive :) :-) :P :D or negative :-( :( | 🔗 | |
| 👀 | Emoji searches are also matched. Usually needs another operator to work. | 🔗 | |
url:google.com | urls are tokenized and matched, works very well for subdomains and domains, not so well for long urls, depends on url. Youtube ids work well. Works for both shortened and canonical urls, eg: gu.com shortener for theguardian.com. When searching for Domains with hyphens in it, you have to replace the hyphen by an underscore (like url:t_mobile.com) but underscores _ are also tokenized out, and may not match | 🔗 | |
lang:en | Search for tweets in specified language, not always accurate, see the full list and special lang codes below. | 🔗 | |
| Users | from:user | Sent by a particular @username e.g. "dogs from:NASA" | 🔗 |
to:user | Replying to a particular @username | 🔗 | |
@user | Mentioning a particular @username. Combine with -from:username to get only mentions | 🔗 | |
list:715919216927322112 list:esa/astronauts | Tweets from members of this public list. Use the list ID from the API or with urls like twitter.com/i/lists/715919216927322112. List slug is for old list urls like twitter.com/esa/lists/astronauts. Cannot be negated, so you can't search for "not on list". | 🔗 | |
filter:verified | From verified users | 🔗 | |
filter:blue_verified | From "verified" users that paid $8 for Twitter Blue | 🔗 | |
filter:follows | Only from accounts you follow. Cannot be negated. | 🔗 | |
filter:social filter:trusted | Only from algorithmically expanded network of accounts based your own follows and activities. Works on "Top" results not "Latest" | 🔗 | |
| Geo | near:city | Geotagged in this place. Also supports Phrases, eg: near:"The Hague" | 🔗 |
near:me | Near where twitter thinks you are | 🔗 | |
within:radius | Within specific radius of the "near" operator, to apply a limit. Can use km or mi. e.g. fire near:san-francisco within:10km | 🔗 | |
geocode:lat,long,radius | E.g., to get tweets 10km around twitters hq, use geocode:37.7764685,-122.4172004,10km | 🔗 | |
place:96683cc9126741d1 | Search tweets by Place Object ID eg: USA Place ID is 96683cc9126741d1 | 🔗 | |
| Time | since:2021-12-31 | On or after (inclusive) a specified date. 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day separated by - a dash. | 🔗 |
until:2021-12-31 | Before (NOT inclusive) a specified date. Combine with a "since" operator for dates between. | 🔗 | |
since:2021-12-31_23:59:59_UTC | On or after (inclusive) a specified date and time in the specified timezone. 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day separated by - dashes, an _ underscore separating the 24 hour clock format hours:minutes:seconds and timezone abbreviation. | 🔗 | |
until:2021-12-31_23:59:59_UTC | Before (NOT inclusive) a specified date and time in the specified timezone. Combine with a "since" operator for dates between. | 🔗 | |
since_time:1142974200 | On or after a specified unix timestamp in seconds. Combine with the "until" operator for dates between. Maybe easier to use than since_id below. | 🔗 | |
until_time:1142974215 | Before a specified unix timestamp in seconds. Combine with a "since" operator for dates between. Maybe easier to use than max_id below. | 🔗 | |
since_id:tweet_id | After (NOT inclusive) a specified Snowflake ID (See Note) below) | 🔗 | |
max_id:tweet_id | At or before (inclusive) a specified Snowflake ID (see Note below) | 🔗 | |
within_time:2d within_time:3h within_time:5m within_time:30s | Search within the last number of days, hours, minutes, or seconds | 🔗 | |
| Tweet Type | filter:nativeretweets | Only retweets created using the retweet button. Works well combined with from: to show only retweets. Only works within the last 7-10 days or so. | 🔗 |
include:nativeretweets | Native retweets are excluded by default. This shows them. In contrast to filter:, which shows only retweets, this includes retweets in addition to other tweets. Only works within the last 7-10 days or so. | 🔗 | |
filter:retweets | Old style retweets ("RT") + quoted tweets. | 🔗 | |
filter:replies | Tweet is a reply to another Tweet. good for finding conversations, or threads if you add or remove to:user | 🔗 | |
filter:self_threads | Only self-replies. Tweets that are part of a thread, not replies in other conversations. | 🔗 | |
conversation_id:tweet_id | Tweets that are part of a thread (direct replies and other replies) | 🔗 | |
filter:quote | Contain Quote Tweets | 🔗 | |
quoted_tweet_id:tweet_id | Search for quotes of a specific tweet | 🔗 | |
quoted_user_id:user_id | Search for all quotes of a specific user, by numeric User ID (See Note below) | 🔗 | |
card_name:poll2choice_text_only card_name:poll3choice_text_only card_name:poll4choice_text_only card_name:poll2choice_image card_name:poll3choice_image card_name:poll4choice_image | Tweets containing polls. For polls containing 2, 3, 4 choices, or image Polls. | 🔗 | |
| Engagement | filter:has_engagement | Has some engagement (replies, likes, retweets). Can be negated to find tweets with no engagement. Note all of these are mutually exclusive with filter:nativeretweets or include:nativeretweets, as they apply to the retweet, not the original tweet, so they won't work as expected. | 🔗 |
min_retweets:5 | A minimum number of Retweets. Counts seem to be approximate for larger (1000+) values. | 🔗 | |
min_faves:10 | A minimum number of Likes | 🔗 | |
min_replies:100 | A minimum number of replies | 🔗 | |
-min_retweets:500 | A maximum number of Retweets | 🔗 | |
-min_faves:500 | A maximum number of Likes | 🔗 | |
-min_replies:100 | A maximum number of replies | 🔗 | |
| Media | filter:media | All media types. | 🔗 |
filter:twimg | Native Twitter images (pic.twitter.com links) | 🔗 | |
filter:images | All images. | 🔗 | |
filter:videos | All video types, including native Twitter video and external sources such as Youtube. | 🔗 | |
filter:periscope | Periscopes | 🔗 | |
filter:native_video | All Twitter-owned video types (native video, vine, periscope) | 🔗 | |
filter:vine | Vines (RIP) | 🔗 | |
filter:consumer_video | Twitter native video only | 🔗 | |
filter:pro_video | Twitter pro video (Amplify) only | 🔗 | |
filter:spaces | Twitter Spaces only | 🔗 | |
| More Filters | filter:links | Only containing some URL, includes media. use -filter:media for urls that aren't media | 🔗 |
filter:mentions | Containing any sort of @mentions | 🔗 | |
filter:news | Containing link to a news story. Combine with a list operator to narrow the user set down further. Matches on a list of Domains (See Note for full list) | 🔗 | |
filter:safe | Excluding NSFW content. Excludes content that users have marked as "Potentially Sensitive". Doesn't always guarantee SFW results. | 🔗 | |
filter:hashtags | Only Tweets with Hashtags. | 🔗 | |
| App specific | source:client_name | Sent from a specified client e.g. source:tweetdeck (See Note for common ones) eg: twitter_ads doesn't work on it's own, but does with another operator. | 🔗 |
card_domain:pscp.tv | Matches domain name in a Twitter Card. Mostly equivalent to url: operator. | 🔗 | |
card_url:pscp.tv | Matches domain name in a Card, but with different results to card_domain. | 🔗 | |
card_name:audio | Tweets with a Player Card (Links to Audio sources, Spotify, Soundcloud etc.) | 🔗 | |
card_name:animated_gif | Tweets With GIFs | 🔗 | |
card_name:player | Tweets with a Player Card | 🔗 | |
card_name:app card_name:promo_image_app | Tweets with links to an App Card. promo_app does not work, promo_image_app is for an app link with a large image, usually posted in Ads. | 🔗 | |
card_name:summary | Only Small image summary cards | 🔗 | |
card_name:summary_large_image | Only large image Cards | 🔗 | |
card_name:promo_website | Larger than summary_large_image, usually posted via Ads | 🔗 | |
card_name:promo_image_convo card_name:promo_video_convo | Finds Conversational Ads cards. | 🔗 | |
card_name:3260518932:moment | Finds Moments cards. 3260518932 is the user ID of @TwitterMoments, but the search finds moments for everyone, not that specific user. | 🔗 |
Modified at 2025-07-11 10:32:31