Here’s what they look like in practice:

The feature makes it easier to find specific tweets you’re looking for by filtering based on date, user, retweet count, hashtags and more. Sure, this technically has existed on Twitter for a long time, but figuring out how to pull up advanced search is pretty unintuitive and clunky. On the web, you have to type in your search term, then click the three dot menu to the right of the search bar to open up advanced search. On mobile, this wasn’t even an option until now, when this feature release seems to be imminent.

These changes could come courtesy of George Hotz, the security hacker known for developing iOS jailbreaks and reverse engineering the PlayStation 3. He later founded Comma.ai, a driver-assistance system startup that aims to bring Tesla Autopilot–like functionality to other cars.

if I just get rid of the pop up I still consider my internship a win. I have a chrome extension on my laptop to block it

reminds me of the guy who got a job at Apple, made Wallet automatically delete your expired boarding passes, and quit the next week

Search within Twitter reminds me of Infoseek in ‘98! That will also get a lot better pronto.

It’s not clear when this feature will roll out, but typically, when a feature can be reverse engineered by an app researcher — as is the case here — it’s almost ready for the public eye.

We’ll have to wait and see how good this feature is in practice, but truly, the only way for Twitter’s search function to go is up.

Twitter’s advanced search filters for mobile are on their way by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

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