Query search for multiple users with specified keywords in tweets

[psoon6]

I am trying to write a query to search for multiple users with various keywords in their tweets. I have a list of 90 users and I want to search for tweets from those users with 3 different keywords: e.g… “climate change”, “red”, “blue”

My query is like this one:
“query”: "climate change OR red OR blue from:user1 OR from:user2 "
This gives me tweets with climate change, red, and ,blue in it but does not give me tweets by user1 and user2.

What should my query look like for me to get tweets by specified users with the 3 keywords in it?
Also, if my keyword is not a single word (e.g… climate change) will the search give tweets with just “climate” or just “change”? I need tweets with “climate change”

[LeBraat]

First off, my response is assuming that you are using either the sandbox or paid version of the premium Search APIs.

The query that you presented will read as such:
climate AND change OR red OR blue AND from:user1 OR from:user2

What should my query look like for me to get tweets by specified users with the 3 keywords in it?

Based on your explanation of what you are looking to do, I suggest that you use the following query instead:
“query”: ""climate change" OR red OR blue (from:user1 OR from:user2)"

Also, if my keyword is not a single word (e.g… climate change) will the search give tweets with just “climate” or just “change”?

If you used the example that you included, it would look for Tweets that had ‘climate’ and ‘change’, but not specifically right next to each other. This could be…
The change in the climate.
By wrapping the two keywords with phrase quotes, it would just match Tweets that had ‘climate change’ next to each other in that exact order.

[psoon6]

Yes, I am using a full-archive endpoint.
I used the code that you suggested :
“query”: ““climate change” OR red OR blue (from:user1 OR from:user2)”`

And it seems to be giving me tweets with the 3 keywords regardless of the user. As in my results I see tweets from users that I have not identified.

[LeBraat]

My apologies. I should have surrounded the first three keywords in parentheses as well.

“query”: "(\"climate change\" OR red OR blue) (from:user1 OR from:user2)"

[psoon6]

Another question: Is there anyway that I could get an output that counts the number of tweets containing the keyword by each user specified in the query.

1. if I use counts endpoints it gives me the total number of tweets from all users specified in the query - but I want to know how many tweets are made by each user in the query
2. if I use data endpoints it gives me the tweets itself with the user but I have a long time period (fromdate and todate), so I will have to go through a large set of unnecessary output.

I am using premium API with full-archive endpoint.
Thank you!

[LeBraat]

@psoon6 - My colleague @hmz answered you in your other post. Please refrain from posting duplicative content.

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