Searching Twitter

It’s an exciting semester to be teaching immigration law. Immigration is in the news daily, and it’s the subject of many presidential tweets.

This post is intended to help the less twitter-savvy among us to find the precise tweets that you’re looking to use in class.

• Open Twitter.
• Type a search term into the twitter search function. This is at the very top of the webpage.

• You’ll be taken to another page with search results. At this point click “show” next to “Search filters.”

• Now click “Advanced search” under “Search filters.”

• Now you can do an advanced search. In the example below, I’m looking for any tweets by @potus, @realDonaldTrump or @WhiteHouse that use the words diversity or lottery.

Ah, now here’s the perfect one to use in class this week:

I hope this has been helpful. Happy tweet hunting!

-KitJ