[social-networking] question for Twitter users

[John McCann]

Jenine:

This is a piece of cake, or baklava, as Corporal Clinger used to say on 
mash, <smile>.

The following taken directly from the qwitter "read me" document with one 
personal comment spliced in:

Searching for tweets

The search function of twitter allows you to search for a word or term in 
publically available tweets across the twittersphere. To begin a new search, 
press control+win+/. This will bring up a search dialog. If the current 
tweet contains any hash tags, you can select them by pressing down arrow. 
Use your screen readers read current line feature to see what is selected.



[JM]: If there is no hashtag already appearing in the "edit combo" field, 
simply type the hashtag you want to search for.  It is probably a good idea 
to make sure there isn't any hashtag already there in this instance.



Hashtags are used by people on twitter to make it easier to search for 
tweets about a given event or topic. For example people attending the 2010 
CSun technology conference tagged their tweets with the hashtag #csun10 to 
make them easy to search for.

After you have typed in your search term, there are a couple more options 
you can choose. The first is a checkbox that says "persistent search." If 
checked, this option stores your search results in the current session, so 
that if you use the same search term ever again from that session, you'll be 
able to see the previous results. The second checkbox, save search, tells 
qwitter that you want this search to come up in a buffer every time you 
restart qwitter. For searching, each API call can bring up 100 results. The 
next option sets the number of posts to retrieve during each update, and the 
default is 100. If this remains at the default, the next option will be the 
max API calls to use per update of this search. The default will be whatever 
you set in the default settings tab of the buffer configuration dialog. 
Click OK, and a search buffer will be created and you will be placed in this 
buffer. Note that if you create a saved search, Qwitter will automatically 
save posts in-session.



Note that these search buffers act just like any other buffer and that they 
will update as new results come in or if forced to by the force update 
keystroke. To dismiss a search buffer, or any dismissable buffer, press 
control+win+apostrophe



Hope this helps!

John
Twitter: johnkw4u

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jenine Stanley" <jeninems at wowway.com>
To: "'ACB leadership from state and local chapters,special interest 
affiliates and committees and task forces wishing tolearn about the use of 
social networking sites.'" <social-networking at acb.org>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:16 AM
Subject: [social-networking] question for Twitter users


OK, just to prove I do not know everything about Twitter, how might I search
for and follow a tag, such as #midyr11 and see everyone whose used that tag
instead of just the people I follow?

I'm currently using Qwitter but could do this on the regular Twitter site as
well if necessary.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Jenine Stanley
jeninems at wowway.com



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