How do I search within someone's tweets?

Question

I remember Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) had posted a tweet about a new website, but I can't seem to find the link.

Is there any way I can search within someone's tweets to find that link?

Answer 1

Remy Sharp wrote a website application that will search your, or someone else's tweets without the limitations Twitter imposes so you can search far further back in time. It's at http://snapbird.org/.

Answer 2

Twitter has an advanced search form that you can use.

Answer 3

If you can remember what the site was about or a word or two from the tweet, twitter has an advanced search which allows you to specify a user's tweets to search

Answer 4

There is an answer to the same question on superuser.com that you can reference.

Jonathan Sampson's answer from that post:

http://search.twitter.com

from:username tax

Or use google:

site:twitter.com/username tax

Answer 5

Also note that Twitter does not retain an infinitely long history of messages, you may not be able to find a Twitter message from the past.