How do you search on Twitter?
When I first started with Twitter, I didn't really get it, how it could be used or how it could benefit me. Nowadays, I find it to be often a first port of call when I'm doing some research on a particular topic.
Searching on Twitter is straight forward. On the PC website you can use the search bar at the top, on a mobile app, Twitter tends to have a magnifying glass to click on for you to search.
On the screen shot here I have searched for the term CIPD.
Now have a look at the top left hand side where there are the categories everything, people, photos, videos and news. These are filters that allow you to show people that contain, in my example, the search term CIPD. It should be no surprise that CIPD themselves and Peter Cheese, CEO of CIPD appear at the top. If I click on photos, videos or news then my results will be filtered to show items that are relevant to my search term. For example just now when doing this search, I can see that one of the "hot topics" around CIPD right now is in relation to CIPD's most recently published report entitled "The End of the Pay Rise" which you can find just here: CIPD Report "The End of the Payrise" published 13th February 2014
So that's how you search on Twitter. Have a go. See who you can find (people) what current inforamtion you can find (news).
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