Search widget

Search widget

The Twitter widget module allows different Twitter feeds to be displayed.

  • Profile tweets
  • Search
  • Favorites (Faves)
  • Lists

This article introduces the search widget. To get your Twitter search widget running, a few details have to be entered in the configuration screen of the module:

search
search

On the left of this article, this page shows the search widget configured to search for Tweets that contain "Rainbow". Twitter allows you to select the tweets displayed in the search widget in varous ways.

Search options

ExampleFinds tweets...
twitter search containing both "twitter" and "search". This is the default operator.
"happy hour" containing the exact phrase "happy hour".
love OR hate containing either "love" or "hate" (or both).
beer -root containing "beer" but not "root".
#haiku containing the hashtag "haiku".
from:alexiskold sent from person "alexiskold".
to:techcrunch sent to person "techcrunch".
@mashable referencing person "mashable".
"happy hour" near:"san francisco" containing the exact phrase "happy hour" and sent near "san francisco".
near:NYC within:15mi sent within 15 miles of "NYC".
superhero since:2010-12-27 containing "superhero" and sent since date "2010-12-27" (year-month-day).
ftw until:2010-12-27 containing "ftw" and sent up to date "2010-12-27".
movie -scary :) containing "movie", but not "scary", and with a positive attitude.
flight :( containing "flight" and with a negative attitude.
traffic ? containing "traffic" and asking a question.
hilarious filter:links containing "hilarious" and linking to URLs.
news source:twitterfeed containing "news" and entered via TwitterFeed

 

 


All options of the Twitter widget module correspond to the official Twitter widget, which can be found here: http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets