The body of a tweet reply is having a list of @username
at the beginning.
When you search for a keyword
, it can match a username in this list.
For example, searching keyword
will match:
Tweet A :
This is an exemple tweet speaking about keyword
Tweet B : (a reply tweet)
@keyword Speaking about random topic
There is multiple solution to exclude tweet replies using -filter:replies
or exclude:replies
, but it will remove all replies. It won't be possible to match tweet like :
Tweet C :
@username Reply speaking about keyword
Is it possible to search a keyword only within tweet content, without matching to a name in front of a reply tweet ? Having a query to match only Tweet A and C.
Try
Where
[keyword]
is, of course, any keyword you choose.-from:[keyword]
will exclude tweets from the@keyword
user-@[keyword]
will exclude tweets mentioning the user@keyword
-to:[keyword]
will exclude tweets replying to the user@keyword