Twitter Adds Photos, Accounts To Web Search Results

If you do any searches on Twitter.com in the near future, your search results may look quite a bit different. Twitter has announced that matching photos and accounts will show up in search results. It essentially makes Twitter’s search results more “universal,” in that you won’t just see tweets that match the search term. There’s […]

Matt McGee on August 1, 2013 at 5:56 pm

If you do any searches on Twitter.com in the near future, your search results may look quite a bit different.

Twitter has announced that matching photos and accounts will show up in search results. It essentially makes Twitter’s search results more “universal,” in that you won’t just see tweets that match the search term.

There’s also a new “Photos” filter, and other changes that are visible from the dropdown underneath the Twitter.com search box.

We’ve detailed all these changes, along with some screenshots, in our story over on Search Engine Land:

Twitter Launches Its Version Of Universal Search Results

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