How to Optimize Your Use of Twitter by Adding Twitter Search to Your Web Browser

Adding Twitter Search to Internet Explorer

By default, Internet Explorer's Search box uses Windows Live search engine. If you want to get Twitter in there, you will need to create what is known as a "custom search provider".

Here is how to get this accomplished in 10 easy step

1. Find the Twitter search page
2. Run a search using TEST (all-caps) as the search word
3. Copy the resulting URL from the Address Bar
4. Click the drop-down arrow to the right of the Search box, and click "Find More Providers".
5. Scroll to the bottom of the window and click the Create your own Search Provider.
6. Click inside the URL text box and past the address from step 3.
7. Use the Name text box to specify the name you want to appear in the "Search" box list
8. Install Search Provider
9. If you want Internet Explorer to use Twitter as default search engine, select the "Make this my default search provider" check box.
10. Click Add.

Using the Twitter Search within Internet Explorer is easier than installing it, pull down the Search box list and click Twitter.

Type in search phrase or word and click search.

Adding Twitter to Firefox

Adding Twitter to Firefox is easier than installing it on Internet Explorer.

Here are the basic steps
1. Find Twitter Search Page
2. Pull down the Search box menu
3. Click Add "Twitter Search". Wasn't that easy

Working with Search Results

Once you have installed your Twitter Search ready to go, it becomes a matter of scrolling through the tweets, looking for the information you want, and trying to find something that catches your eye. Here are three basic things you can do with individual search results

• Check out the tweeter's profile page by clicking the username at the beginning of the tweet
• Click a tweet's link (if there is one) to visit the site.
• See the archive version of the tweet (where time is a time value like "10 minutes or "5 hours)

Other than these basic techniques there are also a few other ways to work with the results you find. You can also mark a tweet as a favorite and access the post whenever you desire. We will study how to mark a search result as a favorite in another article.

Have fun using Twitter on your web browser and take advantage of the accessibility available to you as you search on Twitter without even going directly to Twitter's web site.

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