16 Mar 2023

I used Twitter in the past as a great Lead Generation source. Built an automation with the then free API to get daily data from it, to feed into email outreaches.

!projects/twittee

With the API not available anymore, looking now at other ways to leverage Twitter for lead generation.

Twitter Search

Example: searching for event in the tweets of @ucl:

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aucl%20event&src=typed_query&f=top

so use:

f"https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A{twitter_handle}%20{query}"

advanced search

UI query for "event" from @ucl since 1st Jan, tweets only (no replies), and with links: event (from:ucl) since:2023-01-01 filter:links -filter:replies
translates to: https://twitter.com/search?q=event%20(from%3Aucl)%20since%3A2023-01-01%20filter%3Alinks%20-filter%3Areplies&src=typed_query

so use:

f"https://twitter.com/search?q={query}%20(from%3A{twitter_handle})%20since%3A{since}%20filter%3Alinks%20-filter%3Areplies&src=typed_query"

for exact phase, eg "abstract submission", use quotes & unicode, eg q="abstract%20submission".

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