By default, TweepSearch searches the name, screen name, bio and location fields of Twitter profiles. In addition, each of these fields can be searched specifically using the conventions below.
- Location Search: Use
location:"Search Term"to search the location field. Some examples: - Find people with "Seattle, WA" in their location: location:"Seattle, WA"
- Find people with "anywhere" in their location: location:anywhere
- Additional search terms can be added: location:seattle security
- Limit by Friends/Followers: Use
only:friendsoronly:followersto limit a search on a users' friends or followers. - Search only dacort's friends for security tweeps: security only:friends
- Search dacort for mutual friends: only:mutual
- Search dacort for friends of friends that dacort is not following: only:ff -->
- Name Search: Use
name:"Search Term"to search the name field. Some examples: - Find other "Damon's" on Twitter: name:Damon
- Combining Searches: Fields can be combined as well.
- Find other Damon's in Seattle: location:Seattle name:Damon
- Operators: Various operators are supported by TweepSearch, including the common negation (-) and OR operators. Some examples:
- Search for the phrase "social media": "social media"
- Search for "social", but not "media": social -media
- Search for "security" OR "statistics": security OR statistics
- Find "security" or "statistics" within 10 words of each other: "security statistics"~10
Logging in allows you to follow and unfollow people directly from the site. While I am a security professional, you should be cautious of any site that requests your username and password. Hopefully, your Twitter password is classified as "low-security" and not re-used somewhere important like your bank. I do not store or maintain your password, I only use it to authenticate you to the Twitter service. I do plan on purchasing an SSL certificate and implementing OAuth so your login information can be more secure - however, since this is merely a side project for me I don't quite have the time to implement either of those immediately.
What does it mean when it says "x% indexed"?The precent indexed indicates how many of your friends and followers have been indexed by the service. If the status is "indexed", we should have almost all of them indexed but it may vary depending on a variety of factors. If you are "queued", that means we already have some of your friends and followers indexed, but we're going to take another pass through to obtain their latest profile information.
