How to Search Old Past Tweets by User and by Location

If you wish to browse your own past, old tweets, you could back them up in advance then browse the backup files. However, an additional simple method includes searching them with these top sites, no matter what you’re going to search:

Topsy

This site will permit you to browse old past tweets back 1 to 2 years prior. With the advanced search, you could browse tweets posted within a certain time, without or with any keywords, inside a domain or site, etc. For results, you could filter them by the posted time (like past day, past hour, past five days, and so on), you could browse tweets with photos, links, or the professionals who mention your browsing terms, and you could see the photographs within full size upon Topsy’s website directly for photograph search.

ReSearch.ly

This site permits you to browse tweets using a keyword from a community and/or a place. You could filter results by female or male, negative or positive, and Top RT, you could browse the tweets back to one specific day, and you also can trace the keywords, positive/negative ratio, mentioned times, and popularity of the browsing term using analytic charts. Without registration, you could browse just ten times, and following signing up for a complimentary account, you’ll possess a seven day trial, in which you could expand up to ninety days by posting your browsing results upon Twitter.

Tweet Scan

This website could browse tweets back to a couple of months. You could browse tweets using any keywords from a certain username, reply to tweets through the website, or browse the identi.ca site besides Twitter. However, Tweet Scan isn’t stable, as a few terms aren’t searchable, for instance, you could browse ‘nuts’ directly, yet not ‘freenuts,’ unless you click on a ‘To search further back’ link.

Top Websites to Search Users by Location

Twitter Advanced Search

Don’t forget Twitter Advanced Search as you’re going to browse anything concerning Twitter. Merely put in your location then choose how far away from that location is acceptable, and you could view the most recent tweets from these users close to the location. You also can filter those results by languages, that include Japanese, English, French and the additional sixteen languages, yet not Chinese.

Twellow

It claims it possesses over nineteen million Twitter profiles within their database and allows you to search these Twitter users by their location. You could unfollow or follow the tweeps upon the browsing results, and you also can view their Social Links (like Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, and so on) if any.

TweepSearch

This one claims it’s indexed more than thirteen million Twitter profiles, as well as allows you to browse them by location. As you sign up with Twitter OAuth, it’s possible to unfollow, follow or block these Twitter users. The browsing results could be sorted by friends, followers, screen name, or last update.

Nearby Tweets

Upon the Nearby Tweets site, you could browse anything nearby, almost any city, you could block or follow any Twitter user within the results, and you also can block every one of the tweets from this location.