The Search Stream allows you to look for Tweets with keywords, hashtags, and specific Twitter accounts.
Follow the steps to use the Search Stream:
- Click + beside Search Streams. The Add Search Stream window opens.
- Select or enter the following information -
- Name: enter a name for your search stream.
- Select Accounts: Select your desired account. The Add Search Stream window opens.
- Select Hashtag/keyword search if you are looking for Tweets with particular hashtags or keywords.
- Select Specific accounts Tweets if you are looking for Tweets from specific accounts.
- Contains, if you have multiple keywords or accounts to look for, select :
- Any, if you want to retrieve all Tweets having one of those keywords or accounts.
- All, if you want to retrieve the Tweets having all of those keywords or accounts.
- Under Contains section, If chosen:
- Hashtag/keyword search, enter the keywords with # or @ suffix to retrieve all the Tweets available on Twitter having the same.
- In the Does not contain a field, enter the keywords you do not want to retrieve from any of the Tweets having the same.
- Specific accounts Tweets, enter a Twitter username (without @) to retrieve all the Tweets available on Twitter having the same as shown below.
- Note: You will be able to look for only one specific account at a time.
- Click Add Stream.
All the Tweets as per the set search stream conditions will be displayed. This search will also be saved under Search Streams with the same name.
Note: You can search streams to a maximum limit of 5 times. If you still plan to search, you will have to delete an existing search stream to add a new one.