How to easily search old tweets from specific Twitter accounts

(Pocket-lint) - Have you ever wanted to look up tweets from a circumstantial idiosyncratic connected Twitter? There is present a precise elemental mode to bash it. 

How to hunt tweets from circumstantial accounts

There are a mates of methods, but the newest - hunt from profiles - is by acold the easiest and astir straightforward. 

Manual search

For the longest time, Twitter offered a manual mode for users to hunt tweets from circumstantial accounts. It wasn't precise user-friendly, however, and had mixed results. In the hunt barroom connected Twitter, you had to hunt “from:[Twitter handle] [search term]”. So, that could look similar this:

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Search from profiles

To marque it easier to find that 1 tweet idiosyncratic tweeted years ago, Twitter has added a caller hunt fastener connected illustration pages. This fastener lets you hunt tweets from immoderate illustration you're viewing. Social media advisor Matt Navarra archetypal reported that the caller hunt fastener had started appearing for users successful September 2021. One period later, XDA Developers noticed it had rolled retired wide to everyone who uses Twitter's iOS app. 

Here's however to find the caller hunt button:

1. Open the latest mentation of the Twitter app (iOS only).
2. Go to a user's profile.
3. In the screen photograph area, look for the magnifying solid (next to the ... paper button).
4. Tap the magnifying glass. It's the caller hunt button. 
5. Enter keywords you'd similar to hunt for successful the user's past tweets.

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Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 5 November 2021.