{"id":13056,"date":"2019-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espirian.co.uk\/how-to-search-for-mentions-of-your-name-on-twitter\/"},"modified":"2019-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T00:00:00","slug":"how-to-search-for-mentions-of-your-name-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espirian.co.uk\/how-to-search-for-mentions-of-your-name-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter: how to search for untagged mentions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vimeo space-bottom\">\n<iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/229684056?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"hero\">Who is talking about you but not tagging you on Twitter?<\/h2>\n<p>Do you want to make sure that you don&#8217;t miss any mentions of your name on Twitter? This post gives you a magic search string to save so that can easily check it in future.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you know what you&#8217;re doing, here&#8217;s a sample search string for you to rewrite:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth space\">\n<h3>  Search Twitter for mentions of your name<\/h3>\n<p><code>\"john espirian\" -from:espirian -@espirian<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fullwidth space\">\n<h3>  Search Twitter for links to your content<\/h3>\n<p><code>espirian.co.uk -from:espirian -@espirian<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul id=\"jump\" name=\"jump\">\n<li><a href=\"#intro\">Introduction \u2013 &#8220;untagged&#8221; mentions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#string\">The magic search string<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#part1\">Part 1 of the magic search string<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#part2\">Part 2 of the magic search string<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#part3\">Part 3 of the magic search string<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#save-search\">Saving the search<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#examples\">A couple of real search examples<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#searching-questions\">Bonus tip: Searching for questions on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#wrap-up\">Let&#8217;s wrap up<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"intro\" name=\"intro\">Introduction \u2013 &#8220;untagged&#8221; mentions<\/h2>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s Notifications tab will let you know whenever another user sends you a reply or mentions your username.<\/p>\n<p>But you <em><strong>won&#8217;t<\/strong><\/em> get a notification if someone mentions your name in plain text rather than using your username (the bit that starts with the @ symbol).<\/p>\n<p>For example, here&#8217;s a tweet that mentions me by name but doesn&#8217;t use my username (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espirian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@espirian<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Top 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/proofreading?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#proofreading<\/a> tips by John Espirian <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pSZEgUANB1\">https:\/\/t.co\/pSZEgUANB1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marion Bazzoli \u24cb (@MarionBazzoli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarionBazzoli\/status\/1106234815421054989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another tweet that doesn&#8217;t mention my name at all:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Do you send out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LinkedIn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LinkedIn<\/a> invitations? Do you personalise them? What&#39;s that? You can&#39;t on a mobile? Yes, you can! And here&#39;s how. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6X2zJhDiZU\">https:\/\/t.co\/6X2zJhDiZU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MPS Networks Limited (@mps_networks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mps_networks\/status\/1124356725581197320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>These are what I&#8217;d call &#8220;untagged&#8221; mentions. These can happen for a few reasons:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullet\">\n<li><strong>People forget to tag you<\/strong>: can&#8217;t be helped \u2013 we&#8217;re all short on time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>People can&#8217;t find the right username<\/strong>: help them by including your real name in your Twitter profile and making your Twitter username visible on your website and in your blog posts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>People are talking about you behind your back<\/strong>: this is called <strong>subtweeting<\/strong> and isn&#8217;t good practice \u2013 but you can still dig up these tweets to see what&#8217;s being said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\u201djump\u201d><a href=\u201d#jump\u201d title=\u201dGo back to the links at the top of this page\u201d><span style=\u201dcolor:#303ab2\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#5bc500\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#f4633a\u201d><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"string\" name=\"string\">The magic search string<\/h2>\n<p>To search for untagged mentions, you need to use a search string similar to this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth space\">\n<h3>  Twitter&#8217;s magic search string<\/h3>\n<p><code>\"john espirian\" -from:espirian -@espirian<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Let&#8217;s break down how that works so that you can use it on your own account. The search string is made of <strong>3 parts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p class=\u201djump\u201d><a href=\u201d#jump\u201d title=\u201dGo back to the links at the top of this page\u201d><span style=\u201dcolor:#303ab2\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#5bc500\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#f4633a\u201d><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"part1\" name=\"part1\">Part 1 of the magic search string<\/h3>\n<p>The first part is the search term you&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, I want to look for mentions of my full name, so I write it in quotes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth space\">\n<code>\"john espirian\"<\/code>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\u201djump\u201d><a href=\u201d#jump\u201d title=\u201dGo back to the links at the top of this page\u201d><span style=\u201dcolor:#303ab2\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#5bc500\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#f4633a\u201d><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"part2\" name=\"part2\">Part 2 of the magic search string<\/h3>\n<p>The second part uses the minus\/hyphen symbol to exclude tweets I&#8217;ve made myself.<\/p>\n<p>The <code>from<\/code> prefix means that the @ symbol should be omitted from the username:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth space\">\n<code>-from:espirian<\/code>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\u201djump\u201d><a href=\u201d#jump\u201d title=\u201dGo back to the links at the top of this page\u201d><span style=\u201dcolor:#303ab2\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#5bc500\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#f4633a\u201d><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"part3\" name=\"part3\">Part 3 of the magic search string<\/h3>\n<p>The third part uses the minus\/hyphen symbol to exclude tweets that mention my username.<\/p>\n<p>This time the @ symbol <strong><em>is<\/em><\/strong> required:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth space\">\n<code>-@espirian<\/code>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stick all the parts together and you get the full search query:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth space\">\n<h3>  Twitter&#8217;s magic search string<\/h3>\n<p><code>\"john espirian\" -from:espirian -@espirian<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all. You can use the same method to <strong>search Twitter for shares of your content<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To do that, change the first part of the search string from your name to your website domain.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth space\">\n<h3>  Search Twitter for links to your content<\/h3>\n<p><code>espirian.co.uk -from:espirian -@espirian<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\u201djump\u201d><a href=\u201d#jump\u201d title=\u201dGo back to the links at the top of this page\u201d><span style=\u201dcolor:#303ab2\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#5bc500\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#f4633a\u201d><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"save-search\" name=\"save-search\">Saving the search<\/h2>\n<p>If you type the magic search string (or any other search) into the desktop version of Twitter, you&#8217;ll be able to <strong>save the search<\/strong> for next time by using the vertical ellipsis menu (3 dots) in the top-right corner.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6521\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/espirian.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/save-twitter-search@2x.jpg\" alt=\"Save your search on desktop Twitter\" width=\"600\" height=\"493\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6521 space\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Save your search on desktop Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"fullwidth space\">\n<h3>  Note for Twitter mobile users<\/h3>\n<p>You can&#8217;t save new searches in the mobile version of Twitter but you can reuse existing saved searches there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The following example appears truncated but the whole search is saved and does work:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6527\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/espirian.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/twitter-saved-search-mobile-truncated@2x.jpg\" alt=\"A Twitter saved searched viewed on mobile\" width=\"600\" height=\"491\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6527 space lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/491;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/espirian.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/twitter-saved-search-mobile-truncated@2x.jpg\" alt=\"A Twitter saved searched viewed on mobile\" width=\"600\" height=\"491\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6527 space\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Twitter saved searched viewed on mobile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\u201djump\u201d><a href=\u201d#jump\u201d title=\u201dGo back to the links at the top of this page\u201d><span style=\u201dcolor:#303ab2\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#5bc500\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#f4633a\u201d><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"examples\" name=\"examples\">A couple of real search examples<\/h2>\n<p>If I were to apply this method to a lookup for my web design buddy, <a href=\"https:\/\/jammydigital.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin Huntbach<\/a>, I&#8217;d write the search like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth space\">\n<p><code>\"martin huntbach\" -from:martinhuntbach -@martinhuntbach<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lo and behold, it reveals tweets like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">7 reasons you shouldn&#39;t hire <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jammy_Digital?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jammy_Digital<\/a> to design your website: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M9M4vXW5bQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/M9M4vXW5bQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transparency epitomised by Martin Huntbach \ud83d\udc8e<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Espirian (@espirian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espirian\/status\/844106972156825600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(The search also reveals lots of tweets from someone else with the same name, but those are easily filtered out by adding another <code>-from:<\/code><em><code>username<\/code><\/em> part to the search string.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another example for my proofreader buddy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.louiseharnbyproofreader.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Louise Harnby<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth space\">\n<p><code>\"louise harnby\" -from:louiseharnby -@louiseharnby<\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a typical result: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How publishing professionals can stretch their marketing budget <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KAg2bC6c3X\">https:\/\/t.co\/KAg2bC6c3X<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BookMachine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bookmachine<\/a> The lovely Louise Harnby.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Victoria Woodside (@vicproofreader) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vicproofreader\/status\/873130029466750976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Note that in each of these cases, the person is mention but their Twitter username isn&#8217;t. That means they won&#8217;t have received a notification, and so the tweet may well have gone unacknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to make sure this doesn&#8217;t happen to you, rewrite the search string to suit your name and details, and then save it for future reference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth space\">\n  <strong>Don&#8217;t forget to check for misspellings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use the magic search string to find common misspellings of your name.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, I&#8217;ll also search for Esperian, Experian (ugh!) and Aspirin (UGHHH!).\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\u201djump\u201d><a href=\u201d#jump\u201d title=\u201dGo back to the links at the top of this page\u201d><span style=\u201dcolor:#303ab2\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#5bc500\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#f4633a\u201d><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"searching-questions\" name=\"searching-questions\">Bonus tip: Searching for questions on Twitter<\/h2>\n<p>If you add a question mark to Twitter searches, the results will display only tweets that include a question.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vimeo space\">\n<iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/216149061?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is a great way to learn about what people are searching for on a given topic, and could be a good source of topics to write about in your blogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\u201djump\u201d><a href=\u201d#jump\u201d title=\u201dGo back to the links at the top of this page\u201d><span style=\u201dcolor:#303ab2\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#5bc500\u2033><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span> <span style=\u201dcolor:#f4633a\u201d><i aria-hidden=\u201dtrue\u201d class=\u201dfas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\u201d><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"wrap-up\" name=\"wrap-up\">Let&#8217;s wrap up<\/h2>\n<p>The notifications feature in Twitter is pretty good, but saving this advanced search string will help you make sure you don&#8217;t let any &#8220;untagged&#8221; mentions slip through the net.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows: perhaps you&#8217;ll discover some cool people have been sharing your stuff without telling you!<\/p>\n<p>Want even more Twitter search tips? 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