Twitter's new search features are supposed to make it easier to find accounts and recent photos related to your search topic, as well as view a stream of topical tweets as you could before. Twitter also added the ability to view recent searches and what it calls social context to your results, which is just a fancy way of telling you whether you're following an account or not.
Searching Twitter
At first glance, the new search results page looks the same as it did before. You get a main section of search results and off to the left are a few options to refine your results. The search page also lists a few accounts you might like to follow that are unrelated to your search, as well as the latest trending topics on Twitter.
Twitter's revamped search results page
But look a bit deeper and you can notice some changes. Off to the left is a new option to refine your search to view only photos, in addition to people or the main stream of results. In the main search column, you get a few popular tweets as you did before, followed by a number of accounts (called 'People') related to your search topic. That is followed by a section of photos, and then more top tweets.
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