May 11th BackTweets Advanced Search

Over the weekend, we released advanced search for BackTweets, the service we created a couple of months ago that lets you search for links on Twitter. Advanced search filters have been requested many times and we’ll continue to improve them as we find time. Currently, you’re able to filter link searches by date, as well as the user that tweeted and the user the tweet was in response to. These parameters are also available in the BackTweets API. And now there’s a tweet counter at the bottom of the search results so you can see exactly how many times the URL you searched for has been tweeted.

Are there any features you’d like to see in BackTweets? Please let us know in the comments!

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Fernando Fonseca says:
May 23rd at 8:58 pm

It is a shame that the service does not implement lower/upper case recognition.
With all of those url shortner services around trying to compete for the shortest url lower and upper case do make a difference.

Something to take into account, imho.

Mike Montano says:
May 23rd at 9:15 pm

You’re absolutely right that lower vs. upper case makes a difference wrt the shortened URLs. But, backtweets searches the resolved URLs, and not the original shortened versions, so this is actually a good thing. As a website owner if you owned example.org, then a search for example.org will return all tweets for your domain. If we made the distinction you would miss tweets to Example.org or eXample.org, etc unless you tried every permutation.

Fernando Fonseca says:
May 23rd at 11:23 pm

Hello Mike,
Thank you for your answer. I understand your explanation and I agree with the solution as far as full domain names go.

Still I think that to implement something that could actually parse what is a full domain and a short url and decide to be case sensitive search on the latter would be a great improvement and appreciated by all.

Twitter is likely to be the de facto tool for companies, at least in the next 2 years, to promote and interact with their customers. Short urls are the only way to do that and, my opinion is, that the short url market is still going to make a big jump into everyone’s life and companies as well.

This is just a thought. Thank you for the feedback and for your time.

I am happy to discuss this further with you.

Mike Montano says:
May 23rd at 11:46 pm

Fernando,

Thanks for the feedback. The fact that shortener’s are becoming more popular is exactly why backtweets is so useful in my opinion. Because you have no other way to tell if someone is tweeting links to your domain.

I don’t understand what use it would be to search the shortened links. We already resolve them, so a search for you domain will find anything that eventually pts to a domain or full path.

The only reason I can see to want to search the shortened URL would be if you created it in the first place and want to track it exclusively (even though backtweets search results for your domain will include all of those tweets already). If that is the case though, twitter search has you covered just fine.

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