I got a bit tired of scrolling back to a known date for posts (as having a couple of 100 tweets visible really makes browsers slooooooooooooooow), so I wondered if you could limit a date range. Yes you can! There are even more options, and there is even a special search page for that:
- [WayBack] Advanced Search
- [WayBack] How to use advanced search
- Examples:
- in English with the hashtag “#WorldCup” sent from Brazil in July 2014
- containing “New Years” but excluding “Resolution” between December 30, 2013 and January 2, 2014
- contains “pluimers” and was posted within 5 kilometers distance of Sassenheim
You can use all these from the regular search as well as per [WayBack] Find Your Old Tweets: How to See Your First Tweet | WordStream.
- https://twitter.com/search-home (via https://twitter.com/search)
- #WorldCup lang:en near:”Brazil” within:15mi until:2014-07-31
- New Years -Resolution lang:en near:”San Francisco, CA” within:15mi since:2013-12-30 until:2014-01-02
- pluimers near:”Sassenheim” within:5km
A was too lazy to find all the possible keywords myself, so used [WayBack] How to use advanced Twitter search queries (with examples!) | Union Metrics (and a few others I found later) to make this list:
keword/prefix meaning/values include word or phrase
if it is an account: includes tweets from, mentions and retweets of that account– negate: exclude this word or phrase @ mentions of an account, but not tweets from it # hashtag lang: two-letter ISO 639-1 language code from [WayBack] What languages can I limit report results to? – Union Metrics Help Desk;
might actually be any BCP 47 IETF language tagnear: region (country, city) within: distance around center of region (at least ##mi for miles and ##km for kilometers are supported) since: date, including the since date until: date, excluding the until date to: reply-tweets to an account (which does not allow an @) from: tweets from an account (which does not allow an @) filter: at least recognises filter:linksto only returns tweets having links:( searches for negative attitudes (it recognises many negative emoticons) :) searches for negative attitudes (it recognises many positive emoticons) ? searches for questions source: at least recognises source:twitterfeedto only return tweets posted via twitterfeedOR include multiple words or phrases
A few tips of things to avoid:
- same start/finish dates: that makes the range 0 days and not display any tweets at all
- too long date range: browsers do not like having many tweets visible at the same time
So this does not work: https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=from%3Ajpluimers%20since%3A2020-01-01%20until%3A2020-01-01&src=typd
But this does: https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=from%3Ajpluimers%20since%3A2020-01-01%20until%3A2020-01-02&src=typd
You can even reclaim your time-line on a specific date: just increase the date by one day: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=filter%3Afollows%20until%3A2020-01-02%20-filter%3Areplies&src=typd
Three really cool things on that last URL
- it shows as the “old fashioned” (not mangled by Twitter because of popularity/advertisements/etc) way
- you can apply it for the current date as well (just remember to add one day!)
- if you do, it automatically shows if there are updates
Hmm, maybe I should make a redirect that always shows your timeline for today in the non-mangled way (:
Some more links I found during this search:
- Source: twitter search keywords lang within until since – Google Search
- [WayBack] How to use advanced Twitter search queries (with examples!) | Union Metrics
- [WayBack] This is what your Twitter timeline would have looked like 10 years ago – BGR
- https://analytics.twitter.com
- redirects to your user, so for me it becomes https://analytics.twitter.com/user/jpluimers/home
- https://verification.twitter.com/
- is often not available (see [WayBack] ► How to verify Twitter account. IT IS REALLY EASY)
- via [WayBack] How to Get a Verified Account on Twitter (And Is It Worth It?)
- [WayBack] Find Your Old Tweets: How to See Your First Tweet | WordStream
- [WayBack] What can I search for in a Twitter snapshot report? – Union Metrics Help Desk
- [WayBack] How to Search Tweets Without Being Signed Up on Twitter | Gizmo’s Freeware
- [WayBack] Search Twitter More Efficiently with These Search Operators
–jeroen
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