Twitter’s DM search will finally actually help you find conversations

Twitter announced on Wednesday that its DM search characteristic has gotten an enormous improve — it will probably now search by means of the content material of your conversations and return particular messages that comprise no matter key phrase you kind in. Earlier than you might solely use it to seek for folks’s names or the names of group chats, however now if you wish to discover that one dialog you had with a buddy about “chili” you possibly can simply kind it into the search bar.

After all, looking for individual or dialog names nonetheless works, and you may even resolve whether or not you wish to see outcomes for folks, teams, or messages — useful if the key phrase you’re making an attempt to go looking occurs to be somebody’s identify.

This transformation has been a very long time coming. When Twitter introduced DM search to Android in Could 2021, it mentioned that content material search was coming later that 12 months. The corporate appears to have missed that deadline by a bit, however at the least it’s out there on each platform — the unique search was out there on iOS for nearly two years earlier than Twitter added it to Android.

Testing it out myself, the improved search appeared to work on the net, in addition to the iOS and Android apps. Whereas it will probably search fairly previous messages, it doesn’t appear to go looking all of them — it dug up outcomes from 2020, however on my account it didn’t embody any outcomes from 2019 or earlier. (It’s value noting that makes an attempt to seek for folks’s names additionally appeared to solely look again that far as nicely.)