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Twitter makes it easier to search tweets from specific accounts

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Jon Porter
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IMG_1632_crop.0.png The search button appears on the top right of a user's profile page on iOS. | Screenshot: Twitter

Twitter has added a new search button on profile pages that makes it easier to search through tweets from a specific user. Social media consultant Matt Navarra noted that the button had started appearing for a small number of users last month, but now XDA Developers says that the feature has rolled out widely in the service's iOS app.

Being able to limit a search to a single user's tweets is not a new Twitter feature. You can achieve the same result by using the format from:[Twitter handle] [search term]" in the regular Twitter search box. So, for example, if you wanted to search my (bad) tweets for every time I mentioned the word keyboard," you could tap the search icon in the app and enter:

from:jonporty keyboard

The new button...

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