{"id":26527,"date":"2019-09-09T15:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T19:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26527"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:12:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:12:40","slug":"twitter-is-finally-working-on-search-for-dms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/09\/twitter-is-finally-working-on-search-for-dms\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Is Finally Working on Search for DMs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Fingas<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Twitter isn’t just launching a deluge of tests<\/a> -- it just announced that a few sought-after features in the pipeline<\/a>. Most notably, it’s developing a long-overdue search for direct messages. Although there aren’t many specifics at this point, it’s reasonable to say this will spare you from digging through a conversation to find a crucial message from days ago. The social network added that it’s “re-energizing” its work on DMs, so this is really just the highlight of a larger strategy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The lack of any search at all for Twitter DMs makes iMessage search seem useful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At least you can somewhat search DMs from the Web interface or from a mail client, if you have notifications enabled. And you can search iMessage archives using EagleFiler<\/a>. But, yeah, both of these new types of messaging have, for many years, had a worse search experience than e-mail and the forms of chat that preceded them.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2019-10-04): Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Twitter today announced that its Direct Message (DM) search feature is now available to all users, allowing anyone to search through the DMs they’ve received.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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