--- title: Advanced Boolean Search for My Community and Discover Twitter Users description: The advanced search syntax is a powerful way to better define your search query, based on multiple criteria and operators, to get more specific and targeted search results. --- [Skip to content](https://knowledge.audiense.com/en/knowledge/knowledge/advanced-boolean-search#main-content) English Show submenu for translations ![logo-insights-color](https://knowledge.audiense.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-insights-color.webp?width=113&height=30&name=logo-insights-color.webp) Open main navigation Close main navigation - English Show submenu for translations - [Contact us](https://share.hsforms.com/1Q15CYppjRb-bFgd0CZZWwg4k1o4) [Contact us](https://share.hsforms.com/1Q15CYppjRb-bFgd0CZZWwg4k1o4) How can we help you? - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 1. [Insights & Connect Knowledge Base](https://knowledge.audiense.com/en/knowledge?hsLang=en) 2. [Audiense Connect](https://knowledge.audiense.com/en/knowledge/audiense-connect?hsLang=en) 3. [Basic Navigation](https://knowledge.audiense.com/en/knowledge/audiense-connect?hsLang=en#basic-navigation) # Advanced Boolean Search for My Community and Discover Twitter Users ## The advanced search syntax is a powerful way to better define your search query, based on multiple criteria and operators, to get more specific and targeted search results. The **guidelines** for performing a user search with advanced syntax in the search field within My Community or Discover Twitter Users in Connect are as follows:   ***Please note:** search criteria and operators are **not case-sensitive**,so **lowercase or uppercase** are both valid.*  - The operator **AND** (or a **space**) returns users with **both** words in the search field. - e.g. *‘marketing AND social’*  or *‘marketing social’* returns users with both of these two words. - The operator **OR** returns users with **either** word in the search field. - e.g. *‘marketing OR social’*returns all users with either of these two words. - The operator **NOT** returns all users **without** that specific word in the search field. - e.g. *‘marketing NOT social’*returns users with marketing but not social. - Single or double **quotations,** search for an **exact phrase**. - e.g. *‘social media’* or *“social media”*. - **Parentheses** can be used to force the priority of the operators. For example, the following two searches would return different results: - *(bio:marketing OR bio:social) AND location:Madrid* - *bio:marketing OR (bio:social AND location:Madrid)* #### Examples: A) Let’s search for users based in *‘Boston’* or *‘London’*, with the words *‘Marketing’* or *‘Social’* in their bios. There are two ways to do this, both of which return exactly the same results. **1.** You can use the **bio** and **location** fields in the **search/filter** sidebar to enter your keywords. - The search criteria are shown in the **breadcrumb bar** at the top. Or **2.** You can use the **general search field** at the top of the **search/filter sidebar**. - The search query is shown in the **breadcrumb bar**. - The search categories (name, bio, location) must be followed by a colon (:), for example: - ***(bio:marketing OR bio:social) AND (location:boston OR location:london)*** If you don’t specify a search category such as bio or location and, for example, enter the term '*marketing*‘ this will be searched for in all three search categories of the users.   B) Let’s search for users with the words ‘urban’ and ‘planner’ in their bios but exclude those users with the words ‘politician’ and ‘event’ in their bios. The query to write in the general search field would be: - - **bio: planner AND urban AND (NOT politician AND NOT event)**   There are **other search options** to bear in mind when using the **general search field:**   For **language searches**, write: **lang:**\_\_\_ - - To find those users who have Twitter.com configured in English write: ‘ ***lang:en’*** You must use the [ISO letter language codes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes#Partial_ISO_639_table) in **lowercase**, e.g. en=English, es=Spanish, de=German, ja=Japanese, pt=Portuguese, ru=Russian, it=Italian, fr=French, nl=Dutch.   For **Country searches**, write: **Country:\_\_\_\_** - - To find those in Spain, write: **country:ES** You must use the [ISO letter country codes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2)in **Uppercase**, e.g. GB=Great Britain, ES=Spain, DE=Germany, JP=Japan, PT=Portugal, RU=Russian Federation, IT=Italy, FR=France, NL=Netherlands. For **time zone searches,** write: **timezone:**\_\_\_\_\_ - - To find those users who use the Madrid time zone write: **‘*timezone:madrid’*** For **URL searches**, write: **url:**\_\_\_\_\_ - - To find those users who have a specific url, e.g. ***‘www.audiense.com’*** in their bio write: ***‘url:www.audiense.com’*** Note that this search will also return related URLs e.g. *‘**www.audiense.com/products’***   For **screenname/handle searches** write: **screenname:**\_\_\_\_\_ - - To search for a specific user screenname write, for example, ***‘screenname:@amnestyuk’*** or ***‘screenname:amnestyuk’*.** A **useful** search option is to search the **tags** and **notes** you have applied to any users.   For **notes searches** write: **notes:**\_\_\_\_\_ - To find those users with the word *‘important’* in their notes write: ***‘notes:important’*** For **tag searches,** write:  **tag** **:**\_\_\_\_\_ - To find those users who have a specific tag added to their profile.   **Please Note:** There is a slight difference between a **My Community** search and a **Discover Twitter** **Users** (All Twitter) search when searching for an exact term. 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