In the previous two posts about search on Twitter, we showed you how to get more out of Twitter Search by using the advanced search form, and how to use advanced search operators on Twitter.

These are both useful way to find out a bit more detail about what people are saying on Twitter, and the context of those Tweets. By experimenting with these you should be able to drill down to exactly the right information that you want to find. Since it’s taken you a while to work out this the precise nature of your search, you don’t want to go through the whole process again. That’s where saving your searches comes in.

Any search you can think of can be saved so that you can come back to it later. On your Twitter home page there is a search box on the right hand sidebar. If you carry out a search from here, you have the option of saving this search. A ’save this search’ link appears on the top right hand side of the search results page.

Here’s what it looks like:

If you press ’save this search’, it will appear in the ’saved searches’ list underneath the search bar. If you want to quickly carry out this search again, just click on the link and the search will be carried out instantly. If you find you actually don’t need to run this search again, just click ‘Remove this saved search’ up on the top right hand side of the search results.

Here’s what that looks like:

That’s it for this mini series of getting more out of Twitter search. If you find anything that we could add to this series, please let us know and we can include it in a follow up post.