Twitter Is Deciding To Launch Notifications For Search Terms

Users may now opt-in to receive notifications about tweets containing specified search phrases, thanks to a new feature coming to Twitter.

Twitter has been discovered developing a new feature that would allow users to sign up for push alerts for certain search phrases.

Users who have subscribed to a search term will receive notifications when new tweets containing that word or phrase are published.

Android developer Dylan Roussel spotted this functionality in a pre-release version of the Twitter mobile app:

Twitter is working on a feature allowing you to subscribe to search results. Once subscribed, you'll receive push notifications for Tweets about your search query! 🤯 pic.twitter.com/plTlt484oN

— Dylan Roussel 🇺🇦 (@evowizz) May 31, 2022

 

This new feature for Twitter is called 'Search Subscribe,' and it will be available in a future edition of the mobile app.

It appears to be a TweetDeck-inspired tool. Given that the final TweetDeck app will be retired next month, it's wonderful to see one of the program's best features continue to exist elsewhere.

 

Search Subscribe appears to be straightforward to use. Roussel's tweet demonstrates how to set up alerts in two steps.

 

Enter a word or phrase in the search field and press the right-hand bell symbol. After then, Twitter will display a notification informing you that you've been subscribed.

Roussel says he hasn't yet gotten any alerts, so it's unclear what the notifications will look like when the functionality is released.

 

It's also unclear how often the notifications will be delivered.

On the one hand, this may be a useful tool for keeping track of brand references. You may subscribe to tweets containing your company name and receive notifications even if no one mentions you.

 

If you subscribe to a word that is tweeted about hundreds of times per minute, on the other hand, depending on how alerts are sent, this may be an invasive nightmare.

 

Will Twitter notify users about every tweet, or just the top tweets?

Perhaps Twitter will allow you to customize your notifications so that you can determine the frequency at which you want to receive them.

 

To find out for sure, we'll have to wait till the feature is released. It's now available on Twitter Alpha, which is generally reserved for programmers.

It will be made more widely available in a future update, which may be the next one or a few versions later.

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