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.
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Twitter now lets you use emoji characters in search. The update, first spotted by Emojipedia, is supported both on Twitter's website and apps.
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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
。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。
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。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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