Twitter's search just got a very important update
If you spend a lot of time on Twitter, then you know there are two things that are incredibly important: liberal emoji use and knowing how to put Twitter's search tool to good use. Now, the service's latest update brings those two things together.
Twitter now lets you use emoji characters in search. The update, first spotted by Emojipedia, is supported both on Twitter's website and apps.
With the change, you can search for specific emoji either in usernames or within the text of a tweet itself.
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That may sound like a minor change but it's an important one for power users who can now make emoji-specific searches extra precise. (Previously, searching for say, the black heart emoji, required you to search for "black heart emoji" instead of just ♥ .) It will also improve searches for specific accounts that use emoji in their usernames.
It's probably not a feature you'll need to use very often, but it's definitely an improvement for all emoji-related searches. And, as The Next Web points out, searching for a lot of random emoji, is also an excellent way to discover a lot of bizarre and sometimes wonderful tweets you otherwise never would have seen.
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Karissa was Mashable's Senior Tech Reporter, and is based in San Francisco. She covers social media platforms, Silicon Valley, and the many ways technology is changing our lives. Her work has also appeared in Wired, Macworld, Popular Mechanics, and The Wirecutter. In her free time, she enjoys snowboarding and watching too many cat videos on Instagram. Follow her on Twitter @karissabe.
