Twitter: a Guide for Research Purposes

Fields

 Description

All of these Words 

Tweets containing all words in any order.  Type phrases in quotation marks. Equivalent to Boolean AND 

This exact phrase 

Searches for words as a phrase.  No need for quotation marks 

Any of these words 

Contains any words you type in. Equivalent to Boolean OR 

None of these words 

Excludes the words you type in. Equivalent to Boolean NOT 

These #hashtags 

Finds Tweets for these #hashtags  

Written in 

The language you want 

People 

From these accounts  

The account that sent Tweets 

To these accounts  

Tweets sent as replies to a specific account 

Mentioning these accounts 

Accounts mentioned in the text of the Tweet 

Places 

Near this place 

Dates 

From this date yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-dd 

Pick date from the drop-down calendar. 

Sample Searches 

Search for #sepsis (In: These hashtags) and antibiotics (In: All of these words)  

Search for @ParamedicsUK (In: Mentioning these accounts) and prescribing (In: All of these words) 

Search for simulation (In: All of these words) and ambulance paramedic prehospital (In: Any of these words) 

Search for paramedic prescribing (In: This exact phrase) 

Search for febrile child (In: All of these words) and adult adults (In: None of these words) and Language = English 

Search Keogh (In: All of these words) and @NHSEngland  @AACE_org (In: From these accounts)