Andrew Hyde lives in Boulder, Colorado and travels frequently.

Twitter Search This

I landed at DEN yesterday and did a search for “DEN” and “DIA” on twitter to see if any of my friends were hanging out waiting for a flight.

With those terms being used at a rate of 10x a minute in German and Spanish Portuguese, the results were pretty useless.

Twitter Search

Twitter SearchLanguage control or the ability to search my friends please!

Last year, this search worked quite well.  Twitter is spreading around the world, hitting the mainstream in more than just our extended circles.

And this makes search a) harder b) less relevant and c) the start of mobs.

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14 responses to “Twitter Search This”

  1. MarinaMartin Avatar
    MarinaMartin

    If you pick which language you want to search from the drop-down menu (English), the search results get significantly better for DIA/DEN.

    However, case-sensitive search would be great… for Twitter Search and for Google Alerts, while I'm making a wish list.

  2. Glen Turpin Avatar
    Glen Turpin

    In addition to the Language setting MarinaMartin noted, there's a Place setting in Advanced Search, so you can constrain results by location.

    This gets pretty good results: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+DIA+near%3A…

  3. Glen Turpin Avatar
    Glen Turpin

    Oh, you could constrain results by date, too, so you don't see who was tweeting about hanging around at the airport yesterday.

  4. robjohnson Avatar
    robjohnson

    brightkite!

  5. Adriano Avatar
    Adriano

    Most of the messages displayed above are in Portuguese, not in Spanish.

  6. andrewhyde Avatar
    andrewhyde

    Good call, will update.

  7. andrewhyde Avatar
    andrewhyde

    Yep! That one worked like a charm!

  8. andrewhyde Avatar
    andrewhyde

    I had a feeling like I was an idiot here. Still funny, and on a mobile or in an app this is a hard setting to find.

    Thanks, updating the post.

  9. Obame Avatar
    Obame

    spanish your ass, this is portuguese. why are noth-americans so stupid?

  10. andrewhyde Avatar
    andrewhyde

    Already updated.

  11. Martin May Avatar
    Martin May

    Beat me to it 😉

  12. hubs Avatar
    hubs

    In my eyes this makes search MORE relevant (just not to you particular needs).

  13. Joshua Giblette Avatar
    Joshua Giblette

    Had the exact same issue yesterday as I sat on the runway for half an hour after landing @ DIA.

  14. Joshua Giblette Avatar
    Joshua Giblette

    Had the exact same issue yesterday as I sat on the runway for half an hour after landing @ DIA.

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