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Saved by 34 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2009-06-30
- Quirkytech on 2009-08-09 - Tags twitter
- Baldy7 on 2009-08-09 - Tags twitter , shortcuts , web2.0
- Sherrilibrarian on 2009-08-09 - Tags twitter , shortcuts , technology
- Grinner3001 on 2009-08-09 - Tags Twitter , shortcuts
- Libwithattitude on 2009-08-08 - Tags twitter , shortcuts , search , commands
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GET username
This simply grabs the last tweets from a user, for example if you 'tweet' 'GET lakey' you'll be presented with my last tweet (and you won't actually tweet anything).
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WHOIS username
A quick way of checking out a user is to use the WHOIS command. Tweet 'WHOIS lakey' and you'll see the following, in a dropdown (and once again, you won't tweet anything yourself):
"Chris Lake, since Sep 2008. bio: Editor in Chief at Econsultancy, blogger and entrepreneur. location: London, UK web: http://econsultancy.com"
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FROM
To see the tweets I have sent simply enter the following query: ‘from:lakey’
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Drilling down into search
In the same way that you can use various commands and operators in Google to filter results, you can tweak Twitter search queries so that only relevant results are returned...
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on 2009-07-01 by brasst
Read the blog for details - same methods one uses in Google work in Twitter searches
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