How-to video: Improving tweet results with Twitter's advanced search
Brief synopsis: Sifting through millions of tweets can be maddening and fruitless. Twitter's advanced search can eliminate frustration and dramatically narrow results.
Benefits: Twitter's advanced search gives users many search options. Twitter users can search for tweets by topic, city, hashtag, user and even language. The search can be narrowed by placing an overall topic in the "all of these words" field, then adding specific words in the "any of these words" field. You can also search tweets "from this person" and "to this person." The Twitter advanced search tool can help teachers improve their own research, as well as students' research.
Drawbacks: Many school districts' computer firewalls block Twitter.
Conclusion: The how-to video above, produced by editors at Mashable.com, demonstrates how to use Twitter's advanced search.
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