There’s an astonishing amount of information to be gleaned from mining the amazing real-time stream of information Twitter provides. Twitter search is an extremely powerful way of turning up some of those answers. Even using only plain text queries can turn up lots of valuable information about what people are talking about right now.

But you can go even deeper than plain text queries. They’re not too well publicized, so it’s all too easy to forget they even exist. We wanted to jog your memories and highlight a few of the cool advanced operators that can help you turn up sometimes surprising results.

Twitter’s Advanced Search Interface

For folks who prefer the easy-to-use web form approach to advanced search, head on over to Twitter’s Advanced Search interface.