Twitter DM search feature now actually searches Twitter DMs – 9to5Mac

A Twitter DM search feature that actually works has been announced by the social media company. It’s available in the iOS and Android apps, as well as on the web … Although a DM search bar existed before, it didn’t do what you might expect: let you search for the content of direct messages. Instead, it only lets you search for the names of people or groups. Now, however, search works the way anyone would reasonably expect it to. Twitter made the announcement yesterday, with a GIF showing how it works. We know you’ve been waiting for the option to search your DMs… Now you can use the search bar in your inbox to find specific messages using keywords and names. pic.twitter.com/A41G8Y45QI — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) March 23, 2022 The Verge’s Mitchell Clark tested it, and found it worked well in general – but only seems to search as far back as 2020. Testing it out myself, the improved search seemed to work on the web, as well as the iOS and Android apps. While it can search reasonably old messages, it doesn’t seem to search all of them — it dug up results from 2020, but on my account…
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