The Best Twitter Search Tricks

The Twitter Archiver and Twitter Bots app fire each time a new tweet is found that match your search query. You can write simple search queries (like #Oscars) or more complex query (like obama min_retweets:10 filter:news) that uses one or more Twitter search operators.

How to Search Twitter Like a Pro

Here’s a complete list of Twitter search operators that can help you perform more accurate searches on Twitter:

from:BarackObama
All tweets sent by a particular Twitter user

to:BarackObama -filter:links
Tweets sent to @BarackObama but not containing any links

elections list:TIME/time-staff
Search for tweets from users who belong to a particular Twitter list

youtube.com min_faves:100
Tweets containing YouTube videos that are favorited by at least 100 users

earthquake min_retweets:10
Tweets that have been retweeted at least 10 times

iPhone near:NY within:10mi
Tweets sent by users within the 10 mile radius of New York containing iPhone

#foodrecipe lang:en
Tweets sent in particular language (en = English)

iPhone Reviews since:2016-04-01 until:2016-04-09
Tweets sent in a particular time range (may not work with Twitter APIs)

YouTube good OR amazing OR awesome filter:links
Tweets containing YouTube videos that are described as awesome or amazing

#Emmys filter:images
Show tweets for a particular hashtag but containing images

Barack Obama filter:news
Show only tweets that mention a keyword and contain links to news websites

from:john to:peter -RT
Tweets from user @John that @mention user @Peter but exclude Retweets

family games filter:safe
Filter tweets containing adult or potentially sensitive content

tornado filter:media
Show tornado tweets containing images or videos

music concert filter:native_video
Show tweets that contain native video (uploaded inside tweet)

How to Find the Most Popular Tweets

The engagement filter inside Tweetdeck surfaces the best tweets and removes the noise from Twitter search results but the most surprising part is that Twitter has not made this filter available outside Tweetdeck. You don’t even have it inside the official Twitter app.

Well, here’s the trick. You can actually filter tweets by engagement level on the Twitter website or inside any Twitter app using an undocumented search operator that Twitter doesn’t want us to know about.

Go to the Twitter search box, type any search term and append the operator min_retweets:[number] or min_faves:[number] to filter your search results. For instance, here’s a sample search that will only shows tweets pointing to the labnol.org domain that have been favorited or retweeted at least 5 times.

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The story, The Best Twitter Search Tricks, was originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on 10/04/2016 under Twitter, Internet.

How to Schedule Email Messages in Gmail with a Google Sheet

Have you ever wanted to write an email message in Gmail now but send it later? Maybe you are sending birthday wishes and would like to delay the delivery of the email message until the actual day. Or you have written an email but would like to schedule delivery in the recipient’s time zone when the message is more likely to get read.

Microsoft Outlook has a built-in email scheduler but you do not have a ‘native’ option to delay the delivery of email messages inside Gmail. That’s where Gmail Scheduler can help. It is an add-on for Google Spreadsheets that will not only help you schedule email messages inside Gmail but you can also send recurring email. For instance, if you would like to send an email reminder to your tenant on the last Friday of every month, you can do it with the scheduler easily.

Unlike extensions like Boomerang or Sidekick that are browser specific, Gmail Scheduler is available inside Google Sheets and thus works across all desktop browsers. The scheduler, written with Google Scripts, runs on Google servers and will automatically deliver the message at the time chosen by you even if the computer is switched off.

Schedule Emails in Gmail and Send Later

It take few easy steps to schedule email messages with the Gmail Scheduler. The basic idea is that you compose all the emails that you would like to be delivered later in Gmail, let them stay as drafts and then specify the exact delivery date and time for these messages in the Google sheet.

Watch the video tutorial (download) to get started.

How to Setup Gmail Scheduler

1. Go to Gmail and compose a couple of email messages. After you are done writing the emails, do not hit the Send button but let the messages stay in drafts.
2. Go to labnol.org/scheduler and install the Email Scheduler for Gmail inside your Google Spreadsheets.
3. After the add-on is installed, allow the add-on to access your Gmail and other Google Apps services. This is a one-time authorization and is necessary since all the emails will go out from your own Gmail account.
4. Inside the Google Sheet, go to Add-ons -> Email Scheduler -> Configure to launch the Email Scheduler.
5. You’ll see a list of Gmail drafts in the dropdown. Select a message, click the Schedule button and follow the wizard to schedule that message. Simple.

Your draft messages can have rich formatting, you can add attachments, signatures and even inline images. Make sure that you have included the recipient’s email address(es) in the TO/CC/BCC fields of the drafts.

The email are scheduled in the timezone of your browser. Also, the emails will be sent within +/- 15 minutes of the specified time. If you have multiple emails, you can also choose a different Gmail alias as the FROM address.

Email Scheduler for Gmail – Premium Features

The Gmail Scheduler is available in free and premium editions.

Features	Free	Premium
Support Gmail & Google Apps accounts	Yes	Yes
Emails messages you can schedule at once	5	No limit
Schedule Recurring Emails	No	Yes
Track Email Opens	No	Yes
Duplicate Gmail Drafts	No	Yes
Send emails from another email alias	Yes	Yes
Technical Support	None	Email
	Gmail Scheduler Premium

The premium edition lets you schedule more emails, send repetitive emails that are sent on a recurring schedule (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly), track email opens and you can are also entitled to technical support.

The daily email sending limit is based on the type of your Google account. Gmail users can send up to 100 email recipients per day while Google Apps for Work customers can email 1500 recipients per day. Check Email Quota.

If you have trouble using the Gmail Scheduler add-on, please ensure that Gmail & Drive SDK are enabled for your Google domain.

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The story, How to Schedule Email Messages in Gmail with a Google Sheet, was originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on 10/04/2016 under GMail, Internet.