How to Look Up Specific Dates on Twitter
By Richard Kalinowski
When using Twitter as a social marketing platform, you need to do a lot of cross-promoting. It’s useful to share Twitter posts on other social media sites, blogs, or your small business’ website for maximum exposure. If you want to promote an older post from your account or somebody else’s, Twitter’s search field lets you look up specific dates rather than searching blindly.
Log in to your Twitter account.
Click on the blank “Search” field.
Type in the keyword or phrase that you’re looking for.
Hit the space bar, then type “since:year-month-day” without quotation marks. Replace “year” with a four-digit year, “month” with a two-digit month and “day” with a two-digit day. This limits your search to Tweets posted since that specific date.
Hit the space bar again and enter “until:year-month-day,” inserting numerical values for the year, month, and day again. This limits your search to all Tweets posted until that specific date. Using the “since” and “until” search features, you can narrow the search window to a specific, day, week, or even month.
Press “Enter” to perform the search and browse the results.
Tips
If you already located a specific Tweet, and you want to find out when it was posted, simply click “Expand.” The posting’s timestamp appears, giving an exact date and time for the Tweet.
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Writer Bio
Richard Kalinowski began writing professionally in 2006. He also works as a website programmer and graphic designer for several clients. Kalinowski holds a Master of Fine Arts from Goddard College and a Bachelor of Science in education from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.