#HootTip: How to Use Twitter Quick Search in #HootSuite
Social media and Twitter specifically can quickly create a mountain of content which can make filtering through social media to find relevant information a daunting task. The HootSuite dashboard is designed to help you sift through this online content and find exactly what you’re looking for. To help get you acquainted with the dashboard’s functionality, we have a new #HootTip all about this handy HootSuite feature.
Using Quick Search in HootSuite
HootSuite has multiple features available to search and sort through the torrent of social media content, but our Quick Search is easily the fastest and most convenient. You can quickly search a #hashtag, @mention, or keyword in Twitter instantly from the dashboard. Not only is this a great way to search through Twitter, but you can also save the search results as a stream allowing you to continually monitor your search from the Dashboard.
Here’s How
- Simply click the search bar on the top right hand side of the screen, type in your search, and press Enter.
- This will bring up live search results, where you can view the results, or save them as a stream.
- Once you’ve clicked “Save as Stream”, HootSuite will add that search query into your dashboard for you to keep tabs on at your convenience!
Like many updates, we’ve added these handy features based on your helpful feedback. What’s your next idea? Let us know on our Feedback Channel. Also, keep an eye out for a new #HootTip each week – they’re short, sweet and retweetable so you can share your HootSuite expertise with your friends and followers. Some lucky RTers may just find themselves with a #HootKit… It’s our way of saying “thanks for spreading the word.”
Can we use quotations, and plus and minus signs to filter results?
For example, if I was looking for information on bass instruments I might type in:
bass -fish -beer
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for stopping by. They certainly do work. Give them a try.
We’ll have another HootTip on search coming up next week too!
Andy –
I’m having big issues with searching inside Hootsuite – Words and Search Operators that deliver great results on twitter return NOTHING on hootsuite – what gives? any ideas on what I might be missing?
Hi James,
That doesn’t sound right. Contact the Help Desk for assistance with this.
I love the twitter search interface in HS :D You go guys..err I mean owls!
If it is possible.
I want to search API though the hootsuite.com fro twitter search.
Get the Favorited also in API
sure there is a simple answer, but could not figure out how to get rid of the ones I didn’t want or weren’t relevant
Hi Carol,
I’m not sure I understand you. Did you mean filtering out additional words?
Hi Andy,
I created a stream with a hashtag, which worked fine. But I”ve since gone back to that stream a few months later and the content is no longer there. And when I do a search on Twitter itself Tweets with the # are aren’t there but appear in Google if I search engine them. Any ideas why?
Cheers,
matt
Is there any way to search only from Canada? Trying to find a Geocode for an entire country has stumped me!