Lately there’s been more and more buzz about search functionality on our favourite social networks (hello FaceFeed!), and I’ve heard many friends marvel at how they use Twitter as their primary means for finding out information.

Today, my lovely colleague at Vortex, Mikey Ulch, sent me an amazing link today - a link that I definitely should have known about before.

“Twitter on Steroids”, the Twitter Search Operators allow you to find just about everything you possible need to on Twitter…

How to maximize Twitter Search

One of the previous (probably perceived) disadvantages of Twitter is that it’s difficult to find people in certain locales - but now, using the “near:NYC within:15mi” search term, I can find those people that are tweeting around me.

Great stuff…