Twitter continues to develop its search choices, as a part of its broader updates to the app’s UI, with a brand new experiment that will allow customers to search within their followers list for key phrases.
As you possibly can see on this instance, shared by Twitter designer Andrea Conway, Twitter’s engaged on a brand new search choice throughout the ‘Followers’ tab, which might make it simpler to seek out out who’s following you – and doubtlessly, who’s following different customers as effectively, if made obtainable on all profiles.
That might be helpful for researching the stream of knowledge throughout profiles, or for locating those that comply with you who’ve, for instance, sure phrases listed of their bio, or doubtlessly, by location, profile class, and so on.
We don’t know precisely how it could work at this stage, however Conway has been pushing to build Follower search for some time, which, in different examples, has additionally included search filters like most/least adopted, most/least interacted with, and extra.
Search has been a key focus for enchancment underneath Twitter proprietor, and now CTO, Elon Musk, who shared numerous criticisms of Twitter’s search capability when he first took over on the firm.
Search inside Twitter jogs my memory of Infoseek in ‘98! That can even get so much higher pronto.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2022
Since then, Twitter’s up to date its Search outcomes to supply extra contextually related matches and trending matters, whereas it’s additionally experimenting with numerous different search choices, together with search in Lists, Bookmarks, tweets that you’ve Liked, and extra.

All of those have various ranges of useful worth, and for social media entrepreneurs, they may all present new pathways to maximise engagement, and make sure that you’re interacting with related profiles within the app.
The choice continues to be in early testing, however we might get extra perception quickly.