Can you imagine being able to actually search Twitter to find a conversation, instead of just scrolling through endlessly to hopefully find what youâre looking for? That could be a reality for Twitter DMs in the near future.
First off, the companyâs finally bringing a DM search bar to Android today, nearly two years after it first appeared on iOS. More importantly, itâs going to drastically expand how helpful that bar is by surfacing older conversations and even actual words youâve typed in those conversations sometime âlater this year.â (Currently, you can only search for the names of the people youâve spoken to.)
Weâve brought the DM search bar to Android and are rolling out an improved version that lets you search for all of your old convos, not just the most recent ones. Waiting for the option to search your DMs for message content? Weâre working on releasing that later this year! https://t.co/wAQxSokJt6
Frankly, Iâve rarely ever bothered to try Twitter search on mobile, since Iâve largely been an Android guy â and because Twitterâs mobile search doesnât give you anywhere near the power of Tweetdeck or Twitterâs advanced search on desktop web.