Igor Brigadir posted a few useful Twitter search tips a while back: searching tweets, users, disable auto-URL, embedding media, etc
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/11
For my link archive:
- [Wayback/Archive] Help:How to get a Twitter user numeric ID – Wikidata
- [Wayback/Archive] “🧵 Some resources to get started: 🔎 Link to Advanced Twitter Search:
twitter.com/search-advanced🔍 All known queries:github.com/igorbrigadir/twitter-advanced-search“- [Wayback/Archive] Explore / Twitter: Search -> Advanced
- [Wayback/Archive] igorbrigadir/twitter-advanced-search: Advanced Search for Twitter. (with all operators and lots of examples)
- [Wayback/Archive] “You can view the “who to follow” recommendations manually for other people, use
tweeterid.comto get the user ID, and this url:twitter.com/i/connect_people?user_id=123eg, for me:twitter.com/i/connect_people?user_id=495430242Useful for finding similar users!”- [Wayback/Archive] TweeterID – Twitter ID and username converter
- [Wayback/Archive] Connect / Twitter: user_id=495430242 (you need to be logged on to Twitter in order to view the result)
- [Wayback/Archive] “Like above, you can “turn off” a link, using a zero width space:
zerowidthspace.mecopy paste it somewhere in the TLD (.com) to stop twitter from parsing it as a link, like this:https://example.com/?foo=barUseful to show url parameters, or tweet banned links.” - [Wayback/Archive] “Embedding / stealing other people’s media: Most reliable way is to use Tweetdeck, and “…” menu “Share via Email” and copy paste the t.co link you get at the very end, like so: https://t.co/7Lfah38nVy (You don’t have to download & upload but also means it could get deleted)”
- [Wayback/Archive] “To do the reverse, and get the original “embedded” video, if you see someone doing this (you can see the “From Reaction Videos” credit in there, which goes to the profile, not the tweet), use this bookmarklet:”
- [Wayback/Archive] “Quick useful tool for this: Copy paste this JS into
caiorss.github.io/bookmarklet-makerto make a browser bookmarklet that takes you to the original tweet:javascript:(function(){(m=>{m&&(window.location=m.slice(-1)[0])})(document.title.match(/(\bhttps?:\/\/t\.co\/[\w\-\.as]+)/g))})()“- [Wayback/Archive] caiorss/bookmarklet-maker: Tool to create bookmarklet/ javascript apps to automate the web browser.
- [Wayback/Archive] steven ”italian elon musk” monacelli on Twitter: “Some big Twitter accounts use a practice called “video embedding” which allows them to repost the videos other people have posted without directly referencing the original thread where that video was posted. With few exceptions this is bad behavior. Let me explain why. 1/”
- [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @stevanzetti on Thread Reader App
- [Wayback/Archive] “Quick useful tool for this: Copy paste this JS into
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