There is an interesting blog post over here about using Twitter for travel search:
http://dennisschaal.blogspot.com/2009/07/twitters-travel-search-start-of.html
The new Twitter homepage has a search box on it, possibly making the site more accessible for people who aren't familiar with it already:
http://twitter.com/
There are interesting search filters that you can use:
- to:hostelworld -- tweets to Hostelworld
- from:hostel -- tweets from Hostelbookers
- @hostelworld -- tweets that reference Hostelworld
- #iranelection -- all tweets in a certain hashtag (channel)
- near:madrid within:50km -- tweets within 50km of Madrid
- travel since:2009-08-01 -- all tweets mentioning travel since August 1, 2009
- travel until:2009-01-01 -- all tweets mentioning travel until January 1, 2009
- "happy hour" near:amherst within:100mi -- all tweets about happy hour within 100 miles of Amherst
- hostels :( -- negative posts about hostels
- hostels :) -- positive messages about hostels
- hostels ? -- questions about hostels
- hostels source:twitterfeed -- tweets about hostels that were posted by Twitterfeed (RSS)
- hostels filter:links -- tweets about hostels that link to something
- hostels -movie :) -- positive posts about hostels that don't mention movie
More search operators here.
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