Well, it's take a while, but Twitter has finally added a Name Search function. It's just a shame that it's not very good, in that it has no intelligence at all. It'll search for phil+bradley but can't make any sort of intuitive leap to philip for example. And when it does turn up results it still suggests 'did you mean?' The content provided is useful though - avatar, real name (if given) and a bit of biographical data. You also get to see the number of followers the person has, their location and last update date. Adding in the last update itself would be interesting, as would the number of tweets they've made. Still, early days, and at least they've done it!
Comments