Amount of engagement (i.e., tweets with a minimum number of replies/likes/retweets). Here are some examples of searches using these filters. Example: Find Your First Tweets Let’s look at an example using several of the advanced search filters in one query. Longtime X (Twitter) users occasionally find themselves wondering what their first tweets were like and how much engagement they received. With that said, we’re about to take a trip back in time to look at the first tweets ever published by Search Engine Journal. First, we must add our X handle in the accounts filter, as shown below. Screenshot from X.com, September 2024 Next, we’ll add a date filter. We’ll use the date on our X (Twitter) profile that tells us when we first joined. Just for fun, we’ll create a date range until the end of the year so we can see all tweets from our first several months on X. Note: You have to enter a value for the date, month, and year, or else X will disregard the date filter. Screenshot from X.com, September 2024 Now, the only thing left to do is hit the big “Search” button and see the results. Screenshot from X.com, September 2024 There it is, folks. Our first-ever tweet was a news story about an ad partnership between Yahoo and X (then Twitter). And we received no engagement at all on any of our first tweets. How times have changed since then. Example: Find Tweets With Specific Keywords From Specific Accounts Here’s another example that may be useful. Let’s say you want to find all tweets from a specific account that contain specific keywords. You may find yourself wanting to look up what Google has officially stated regarding specific SEO topics. In this particular example, let’s try to find everything Google’s official X accounts have published regarding core updates. First, we’ll use the keyword filters. Consider the ways in which the keywords you’re looking up might be used in tweets. In this example, our subject might be referred to either as “core update” or “core algorithm update.” So, we’ll put in “core” and “update” to make sure we catch everything. Screenshot from X.com, September 2024 Next, we’ll add Google’s official X accounts. Google has many official accounts, so we’ll only add the ones that are most likely to tweet important information regarding core updates. Screenshot from X.com, September 2024 From here you can narrow it down even further with engagement and date filters. We’re going to leave those filters alone for this particular example though. Here’s what we get after hitting the big “Search” button. Screenshot from X.com, September 2024 There’s a snapshot of everything tweeted about core updates from Google’s accounts in one place. Example: Find Your Most Liked Tweets Another way to utilize X’s advanced search feature is to surface an account’s most-liked tweets. You can also find tweets by the number of comments and retweets they received, but for the purpose of this example, we’ll just filter by likes. This can be for your account, or any other public account on X. Go back to X’s advanced search form, enter the account you want to look up, and then customize the parameters under Engagements. Screenshot from X.com, September 2024 Perform your search, and X will show you all posts from an account that meet a threshold for the number of likes. As seen in the example below, every time you conduct a query with advanced search X displays the formula it used in the search bar. If you want to refine a query without going back to the advanced search form, you can simply change the values in the search bar. Screenshot from X.com, September 2024 Summary Those are just a few of the many ways to explore X’s archives with advanced search. All filters can be used in conjunction. That means you can search by date, search for most-liked posts within a date range, or search for posts with comments that also contain a specific word, and so on. There are nearly endless combinations of filters you can use to find the exact tweets you need. Twitter’s advanced search filters are relatively easy to use, but that wasn’t always the case. You used to have to type in the search operators manually, which required a deep understanding of the way X search works. Previously, searches by date could be performed by manually adding the “since:” and “until:” operators to your search. Now, you can simply fill out a form instead of memorizing all the various search commands. Unfortunately, X’s advanced search isn’t available on the mobile app. If you’d like to search by date on the mobile app you can still do so the old-fashioned way using the “since:” and “until:” operators. Or, you can use the mobile browser version of X, which supports advanced search. Want to learn more about the ins and outs of this powerful search feature?