Hey twitter-searchers / meta-threaders
( @visakanv @conaw @QiaochuYuan)

One cool new thing I've been playing with recently is when I'm threading & want something to QT on a topic, searching for tweets from "people I follow". https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1235325703601745923

This workflow is very different from searching for some specific tweet I remember seeing/writing.

It's led to some fun serendipity, where I discover in the course of articulating something that one of my friends had a related thought awhile ago!

Like eg this which I vaguely recall seeing but I shrugged at it the time because I hadn't deeply appreciated Carse then. https://twitter.com/callumflack/status/1200801403683262465

So this kind of process naturally resurfaces things at exactly the sort of moment I'm ready to really appreciate them!

This tweet I recalled just now from yesterday, & found using `twf not ready` (which the reply says) https://twitter.com/OshanJarow/status/1234930957284728832

As indicated in QT above, I have a custom quicksearch for "search tweets from people I'm following" so I can do it as one thought.

To create, go to chrome://settings/searchEngines or whereever and use this url:

twitter .com/search?q=%s&pf=on

(space inserted to avoid linkify)

In a sane #TwitterReplacement, first of all this sort of resurfacing would happen naturally while composing, without needing to manually trigger.

Various ways to do this; even non-clever ones are awesome, though I'm sure clever algos could make it better (or awful)

Secondly, there would be more categories than "tweets ever from people I'm now following". I would love:
- tweets I've liked
- tweets I've retweeted
- tweets I've ever seen ever
- tweets I've replied to
(& for each, an option to sort by eg like-time, not just tweet-time)

@nosilverv & @krrishd are working on some stuff in this space. Not that much to see yet but it's early stages and I'm still excited that things are happening https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1235154280941793282

@Morphenius you were asking about how I search twitter. This thread contains some of my tips.

There's also some advanced queries like:
to:username
from:username
since:yyyy-mm-dd
until:yyyy-mm-dd