Twitter is rolling out a characteristic to make it simpler to look a person’s tweets – TechCrunch

Some Twitter customers on iOS are beginning to get entry to a characteristic that makes it straightforward to look a person person’s tweets. For these with entry, while you navigate to a person’s profile, you’ll see a search icon within the high proper nook of the display screen on the person’s profile banner, subsequent to the three-dot menu. Then, you may sort in key phrases to look the person’s tweets. Twitter informed TechCrunch that this characteristic is obtainable to all international customers on iOS and can proceed to slowly roll out on net and Android.

It was already doable to carry out searches like this on Twitter — you simply wanted to know methods to format an advanced search. So, for those who 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’ve entry to the brand new search characteristic. Twitter’s longstanding advanced search characteristic could be accessed by looking for one thing, then clicking the three-dot menu subsequent to the search bar on the net. You may filter searches by date, by the quantity of engagement and extra.

Nonetheless, this simply accessible search button makes it simpler to search out tweets from a particular person — so, utilizing the identical instance, for those who didn’t know methods to carry out a sophisticated search, it will be a lot simpler to make use of the search button to search for “Twitter” on TechCrunch’s account, moderately than scrolling by means of dozens of each day tweets to search out what you’re in search of.

After all, it’s doable that this characteristic may make it simpler for folks to dig up others’ outdated, troublesome tweets. However, as all the time, it’s an amazing social media technique to simply not tweet doubtlessly dangerous content material within the first place (additionally, delete outdated tweets).