An organisation recently followed me on Twitter because I had written about it in my political blog. I had no idea how they came to know about it. My posts go to Twitter and Facebook automatically. So I did a search on Twitter for the organisation.

Well, I’m an ex-librarian whose duties included showing students how to search. We use the boolean method. That is, one can search under the categories of title, subject and so on and we can search for content where we use such AND such or such OR such. Twitter has no such capability so all I got were entires which used one of the words. Useless!

NOTE: I’ve just tried searching with parameters. I searched for ‘sleep’ AND ‘disorders’. Twitter then brought up only tweets with both keywords. Then I tried ‘sleep’ OR disorders and the result was quite different. So I’m wrong. You can search Twitter better.

You can see the search parameters here. Twitter does have advanced search capabilities!