With Twitter, there is always an over load of information that its quite hard to keep up with the trend, if you’re not moving along with it. Take a break out of Twitter for one or two weeks and see what happens when you get back. There would be lot of information ahead of you and catching up with them is a big task.

But with Twitter search, things get fairly easy. Twitter search recently acquired “Summize” just for enhancing its search tool and the changes are already showing up.

Here are 10 such tips that will help you search the right information on Twitter beyond your timeline and around the world ! (Be sure to check the example links besides each to see how they work)

1.  Search for Tweets from a particular Twitter user

from:twitterusername

To search for tweets from a twitter user, use the above search term. Example

2.  Search for Tweets from a particular user with links

from:twitterusername filter:links

To search for only tweets with links from a twitter user, use the above search term. Example

3. Search for tweets from everyone with links and a particular term

download torrent filter:links

Let’s say you wanted to search for people tweeting downloadable links about a movie or some goodies, try the above search. Works all the time. Example

4. Search tweets to one person from everyone (Excluding RTs)

to:username

If you want to find out who all sent tweets to a a twitter user of your choice, try the above search term. Example

5. Search for replies to one person from everyone (Including RTs)

@username

This search will include all the mentions, including replies and RTs. Example

6. Search for conversations between two Twitter users

from:username1 to:username2

This search will show up all conversations between two users, without the RTs. Example

7. Search for events(anything) near a place

“event” near:”place”

This search term allows you to search for particular events/happenings or just about anything you want to know happening near a place. Excellent for finding tweetups and other events near your place. Example

8. Search for other Twitter users within your local area or specified physical distance of any place

near:place within:20km

This is an awesome search, that lets you search for twitter users from physical distance around a place. Twitter knows where you are located with your geo codes so things are easy this way. you can select any physical distance from the place according toy our needs (mi=miles, km=kilometres). Example

9. Search for tweets relating to any term from a specific time period

searchterm since:2009-08-01

This is useful if you are searching for things that are recent or within a timeline. Example, a movie review from the date of its release ? Example

10. Search for tweets relating to any term up to a time period

searchterm until:2009-08-04

The reverse of the No.9, where you can search tweets upto a certain period of time. Example

Now, what’s interesting about these search terms are that they are inter-operable (most of them) which means that they can be mixed to get your desired results.

Example – The following search shows how many tweeps from within 15 miles of NYC expressed their love to Miley Cyrus.

love you to:mileycyrus near:NYC within:15mi

Cool, is it not ?