How to Use Advanced Search on X (Twitter)

Oct. 18, 2024

Looking for extremely specific X (formerly Twitter) posts? Well, if you are taking to the platform’s regular search on the web or mobile app, you’re doing it wrong. For such searches, you should make use of the Advanced Search feature on X. Hearing about it for the first time? Well, here’s a detailed guide on how to use Advanced Search on Twitter easily!

What is Advanced Search on X?

X’s Advanced Search is very similar to Gmail’s Advanced Search, which makesdeleting all your emails on Gmailat one go easier. Unlike the regular search on X that simply turns up posts that the algorithm feels are the most relevant, Advanced Search lets you personalize and narrow down this search.

That way, you can pinpoint X to search for posts thatyouknow are the most relevant toyou. In a way, as the name suggests, you’re quite literally carrying out an advanced Twitter or X search.

To get to the X or Twitter Advanced Search feature, you will need to head over to X (website) as the functionality is not available on the Android and iPhone mobile apps.

You can simply navigate to theX Advanced Seach paneldirectly. Or, if you want to know exactly where this panel is located, once you visit the website, follow these steps:

To make things easier, we have dissected each of these settings below for your better understanding.

You can use Twitter’s Advanced Search tool to filter posts on the platform based on the words, phrases, or even hashtags they include.

With that out of the way, let’s shift our focus to the next bit.

If you wish to narrow down tweets from a specific account, find replies they posted, or see the tweets they were mentioned in, you can fill up the following boxes.

Under the Filters section, you will find a bunch of options to toggle on or off and tick or untick. Like, you can choose to include or excludeRepliesandLinksfrom the posts you search for. When Replies are toggled on, you can also choose to “Include replies and original” posts or “Only show replies”. As for links, you can also “Include posts with links” or “Only show posts with links”.

Advanced search also lets you find posts on Twitter based on how others interacted with them.

Finally, with all that out of the way, you just have to specify the timeframe within which these posts should have been made. Under the From and To panels, take to the Months, Day, and Year drop-down menus to specify them.

Once done, click on theSearchbutton at the top of the Advanced Search panel. That should show up in your narrowed-down search, and that’s about it.

And, that brings us to the end of this guide. With that said, we sure do hope that this guide was able to make understanding and using the X Advanced Search feature easier. If you do have any further queries, feel free to drop them in the comments down below!

Sagnik is a tech aficionado who can never say “no” to dipping his toes into unknown waters of tech or reviewing the latest gadgets. He is also a hardcore gamer, having played everything from Snake Xenzia to Dead Space Remake.