A simple fix for the broken twitter search
Twitter search is not actually broken. It is the UI that is the problem. I have made a UI that would make it better for those on mobile. Twitter does not in any way provide a way to have advanced search on Mobile.
# Problem
Have you tried to find that tweet from a certain account from the year 2012 and tried to search it on a Twitter mobile app and saw the catastrophic failure of the the search? We have all been there. Twitter seems to default to something similar to full text search which is fine when you do not remember the exact phrase but sucks when you want that specific tweet.
# The existing workaround
Currently, what you can do is use Twitter Desktop (Web) and use the advanced search. But most people use tweet on mobile. It is the best doomscrolling machine. So that “Workaround” that seems to be relic of the Old Twitter engineering team won’t cut it.
Here is what I said a few days ago
# I decided to take action
Well, talk is cheap, I decided to build it. The build was easy because all that was needed was basic HTML and CSS just like my HashTags project. I made it mobile-first since the pain point is on mobile. As for deployment, I went with Cloudflare because I was hoping to get a pages.dev subdomain but it seems like Cloudflare retired that.
# Show me the app!!
Okay! Here it is https://twitter-search.stanleymasinde.workers.dev. Forgive the long url, if it becomes popular I’ll get it a more concise domain name. The source code is on GitHub
Let me know what you think.