Twitter intros Discovery Engine

Changes to the way you can search the micro-blogging website Twitter have been made so it feels like more of "a natural part of your normal Twitter experience".

By introducing the 'Discovery Engine', Twitter has made it easier for you to see which themes and topics are the most popular at that time, as well as search for other themes.

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You can now also save searches you have made using a search box on the right-hand side of the page.

"By default, the tweets you see on your homepage are from sources of information that you have curated over time — in other words, the accounts you chose to follow. When you search, you're asking for any tweets that contain the word or phrase you're interested in right now," said Twitter's Biz Stone.

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The changes come after Twitter experimented with a search box at the top of the page in some members' accounts, but decided it wasn't a natural or "awesome" enough way to search.

"We had the search box way up near the top of the page and the results on a separate page. It turns out that's not the awesome way to do it," said Stone.