While perusing on Twitter, I came across a tweet that had the following Google search string in it:

site:twitter.com bio location tx 100…1000000 followers -400

Unfortunately, I don’t remember who posted it, if you happen to catch this post, please let me know so I can give you proper credit.  What that search string does, is it tells you all of the twitter users in Texas that have more than 100 followers.

The string is for an advanced search on Google. Most people never use the advanced search functionality, but every so often, I come across something that reminds me of why I like the advanced search functionality.

Here’s a breakdown of the search string:

“site:twitter.com” tells Google to search on the site twitter.com

“bio location tx” Tells Google to search in the “bio” section for the location of “tx” aka Texas.

“100…1000000 followers” Says find people that have between 100 to 1 million followers

“-400″ is the code that tells Google to exclude certain words from the result. I don’t know or understand why they wanted to exclude the text “400″ but that’s what’s being excluded from the search results.

For fun, I suggest you run this search in your own city and see who comes up. I found a lot of interesting people to follow using that little search string, you might too. Let me know if this works for you in the comments.