Some Twitter customers on iOS are beginning to get entry to a function that makes it straightforward to go looking a person consumer’s tweets. For these with entry, if you navigate to a consumer’s profile, you’ll see a search icon within the high proper nook of the display on the consumer’s profile banner, subsequent to the three-dot menu. Then, you possibly can kind in key phrases to go looking the consumer’s tweets. Twitter instructed TechCrunch that this function is obtainable to all international customers on iOS and can proceed to slowly roll out on net and Android.
It was already attainable to carry out searches like this on Twitter — you simply wanted to know format an advanced search. So, in the event you search “from:@TechCrunch Twitter,” for instance, you’ll have the ability to see all TechCrunch tweets containing the phrase “Twitter,” no matter whether or not you may have entry to the brand new search function. Twitter’s longstanding advanced search function will be accessed by trying to find one thing, then clicking the three-dot menu subsequent to the search bar on the internet. You possibly can filter searches by date, by the quantity of engagement and extra.
Nonetheless, this simply accessible search button makes it simpler to seek out tweets from a selected consumer — so, utilizing the identical instance, in the event you didn’t know carry out a complicated search, it will be a lot simpler to make use of the search button to search for “Twitter” on TechCrunch’s account, somewhat than scrolling by way of dozens of each day tweets to seek out what you’re in search of.
After all, it’s attainable that this function might make it simpler for folks to dig up others’ previous, troublesome tweets. However, as at all times, it’s a terrific social media technique to only not tweet probably dangerous content material within the first place (additionally, delete previous tweets).
