How To Block Retweets When Using Twitter Search Box

If you're like me and utilize twitter's search box a lot you've probably realized by now that it can get really annoying seeing so many re-tweeted tweets in your search. But there is an easy way around this. You can block those re-tweets or eliminate them from your search simply by using a hyphen or dash in front of the letter RT followed with a colon, your search key words and no spaces between as shown in the brackets. ( -RT:follow my blog ). Twitter supports the common hyphen (-) operator which represents NOT for when doing a search on twitter. Eliminating or blocking re-tweets in your search will save you time and energy and help you get more focused results in your search.

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