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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. 。
SEE ALSO:This guy spent 8 years making an emoji snake, and it was totally worth it 。Twitter now lets you use emoji characters in search. The update, first spotted by Emojipedia, is supported both on Twitter's website and apps.。
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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