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Facebook has a feature that allows you to search through status messages that your friends have posted, but Twitter doesn't currently have that feature.

Is it possible via the official Twitter webapp or are there alternative web applications that would do this?

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Related, but not quite the same. I'm looking for something that can search through my entire timeline at once. –  146 Jul 7 '10 at 21:34
I find it baffling to think that I can do this from within the official Twitter iPhone app, but not within Twitter's official web interface. –  matt b Mar 10 '11 at 1:44
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SnapBird will do this once you've authenticated with it

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You can now do this through the web interface of Twitter.com

When you search via the webapp, the results will show a filter of users between

Top / All / People you follow

By default the results will come back filtered by Top.

Select People you follow to filter search results accordingly.

You will also notice the URL change/update to the following (on an example search of "watching"):


The following is the part that says you're filtering results to only accounts you follow:

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