Muck Rack makes it simple to find people, tweets, or articles that mention any name, keyword, company, hashtag etc. We've compiled this guide to help you make the most of your search.

Selecting a term

Start searching tweets, articles from media outlets, articles mentioned in tweets, journalists' names, titles and bios with some suggested searches:

• Companies or Topics (e.g. iPhone, Microsoft)
• Phrases (e.g. "cloud computing") — use quotes to keep the terms together
• Twitter handles (e.g. @username) — returns those who have mentioned or replied to given user
• Names (e.g. David Pogue)
• Hashtags (e.g. #sxsw, #london2012)
• Bio details (e.g. vegan, Olympics, father)

Advanced terms

Muck Rack's Advanced Search allows for many boolean operators.

AND

Find results that mention multiple specified terms, use AND or +. For example, ensure each result contains both politicians Barack Obama and Mitt Romney by searching Obama AND Romney or Obama +Romney.

OR

Use the operators OR or , to broaden your search when you'd like either of multiple terms to appear in results. (This is the default behavior of our search when no operators are used.) For example, search for democrat OR republican to find results that refer to Democrats and/or Republicans.

NOT

Use NOT or - to subtract results from your search. For example, searching Disney will yield results about the Walt Disney Company as well as Walt Disney World Resort. To exclude mentions of Disney World, search for Disney -World or Disney NOT World.

Phrases

When using one of these operators with a phrase, enclose it in quotation marks. For example, you can find results about smartphones excluding Apple's iPhone 4S by searching smartphone -"iPhone 4s".

Combining operators

Use parentheses to separate multiple boolean phrases. For example, to find journalists talking about having fun in Disney World or Disneyland, search for ("disney world" OR disneyland) AND fun.