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10 Advanced Twitter Search Tricks to search twitter better. With Twitter, there is always an over load of information that its quite hard to keep up with the trend, if you’re not moving along with it. Take a break out of Twitter for one or two weeks and see what happens when you get back. There would be lot of information ahead of you and catching up with them is a big task. But with Twitter search, things get fairly easy. Twitter search recently acquired “Summize” just for enhancing its search tool and the changes are already showing up. Here are 10 such tips that will help you search the right information on Twitter beyond your timeline and around the world !

(Be sure to check the example links besides each to see how they work) 1. From:twitterusername To search for tweets from a twitter user, use the above search term. 2. From:twitterusername filter:links To search for only tweets with links from a twitter user, use the above search term. 3. Download torrent filter:links 4. To:username 5. @username 6. From:username1 to:username2 7. 8. 9. 10. 4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web | Real-Time News Curation | Scoop.it. I’m seeing more Scoopit links in my Twitter stream and I’m not crazy about it.

Sure it’s quick and easy to share with Scoopit. But it not quick and easy to consume. For me it's all about the econ... Marty Note (here is comment I wrote on Dr. V's blog) Appreciate Bryan’s and Joseph’s comment, but I rarely use Scoop.it as a pass through. More than 90% of the time I’m adding “rich snippets” to content I Scoop. Rich snippets are “blog” posts that fall between Twitter and the 500 to 1,000 words I would write in Scenttrail Marketing.

I was taught NOT to pass through links on Scoop.it early on by the great curator @Robin Good . Bryan is correct that some curators new to Scoop.it haven’t learned the Robin Good lesson yet. For my part I always identify my Scoop.it links, probably about half the content I Tweet and about a quarter of my G+ shares. When you follow or consistently share content from a great curator on Scooop.it you begin to understand HOW they shape the subjects they curate. Marty. Content Curation for Twitter: How To Be a "Thought Leader DJ" Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google | Epicenter  How do you find a new search engine if all you know is Google? Typing “search engine” into the usual box might lead you to Microsoft’s newly launched Bing, the combined search at Dogpile, or the former king of search, Altavista. But for those willing to dig around, searching for search engines can reveal a treasure trove: The net is rich with specialized search services, all trying to find a way to get their slice of the billions of dollars Google makes every year answering queries.

For this article, we surveyed some 50 specialty search services and picked out our favorites. What follows is not a systematic ranking or review, but a general guide to a very vibrant world that few have bothered to explore in depth. The variety of search startups is mind-boggling, and hints at the challenges Google may face staying on the bleeding edge of search innovation in the coming years. Take mobile. Google works fine on the iPhone, but for quick searches on the go, ChaCha can’t be beat. See Also: 4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web | Real-Time News Curation | Scoop.it. The Human News Aggregator: An Interview About NewsMastering With Robin Good | Real-Time News Curation | Scoop.it.