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Twitter upgrades DM management with actually useful search function
Finally, you can find the conversation where someone said that thing that one time
For a site that went live just over 16 years ago, Twitter hasn't changed as much as you might think. Character limits have gone up, and we get some new tweaks now and then to improve news and content discovery, but generally speaking, change doesn't happen fast at the little blue bird. One function that lagged behind the rest of the site has been the ability to search through your direct messages using keywords — the way search works almost everywhere else. Thankfully, this week Twitter's finally doing something about that.
Twitter for Android finally gets a search feature that should've arrived much sooner
It’s been live on the iOS app for two years
While direct messages are great for private conversations on Twitter, it gets increasingly challenging to locate that one thread you're looking for in the long list you’ve built up over the years. To make the process smoother, Twitter is finally adding a search bar in the DM section of its Android app — about two years after the iOS app got one.
Audio communication seems to be the next big focus for Twitter. Last year, the micro-blogging platform introduced audio tweets (on iOS, anyway) and began testing its answer to Clubhouse, Spaces (again, iOS only). Now, it's experimenting with voice messages in DMs — a feature that's been available on social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram for a while now.
Several apps have been fast to adopt Android N's new Direct Reply functionality for quickly sending out an answer to a message from the notification without having to open the app first. Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp have all done this in the past few months and now it's Twitter turn.