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Twitter Advanced Search Operators

Search Operators

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 or 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:blue_verified — From “verified” users that paid $8 for Twitter Blue

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

Date & Time

  • 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 Tweet ID
  • max_id:tweet_id — At or before (inclusive) a specified Tweet ID
  • within_time:2d or within_time:3h or within_time:5m or within_time:30s — Search within the last number of days, hours, minutes, or seconds

Tweet Content

  • 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 them, you have to replace the hyphen with 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

Geo

  • near:city — Geotagged in this place. Also supports phrases, eg: near:"The Hague"
  • within:radius — Within a 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 Twitter’s HQ, use geocode:37.7764685,-122.4172004,10km
  • place:96683cc9126741d1 — Search tweets by place object ID, e.g.: USA Place ID is 96683cc9126741d1

Engagement Filters

  • 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
  • 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 a link to a news story. Combine with a list operator to narrow the user set down further
  • 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.

Where these operators work