Twitter upgrades DM management with actually useful search function
For a site that went live just over 16 years ago,Twitterhasn’t changed as much as you might think. Character limits have gone up, and we get some new tweaks now and then to improve news and content discovery, but generally speaking, change doesn’t happen fast at the little blue bird. One function that lagged behind the rest of the site has been the ability to search through your direct messages using keywords — the way search works almost everywhere else. Thankfully, this week Twitter’s finally doing something about that.
Twitter shared the detailsyesterday about how all this is going to work. Previously you could only search for individual names or group chats. That might have been all some people needed, but for anyone who usedTwitter’sprivate messaging more than a few times, it quickly started getting tedious at best — and infuriating at worst.
Testing this out with Twitter’s web client yields much better results than before. At the moment, DM search seems to only reach back about two to three years, but that seemed to be a limitation with the old system, too. you’re able to use the new keyword DM search in iOS, Android, and it’s currently rolling out on desktop.
The note-taking app I should have used all along
Broader branding hints at wider paid-tier ambitions
App exclusive, at least for now
Oh, and it’s free for all
It’s not your average Google Drive rival
The backlash is strong with this one
