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8.1 Introduction

Twitter’s search mechanism makes it easy to follow trending topics being discussed by Twitter’s 300+ million active monthly users1 (there are over one billion total Twitter accounts2). Searches can be fine-tuned using Twitter’s search operators (Section 8.2), often resulting in lengthy search strings that are time consuming and cumbersome to enter on a mobile device. The Twitter^® Searches app (Fig. 8.1) allows you to save your favorite search queries with easy-to-remember short tag names (Fig. 8.1(a)) that are displayed as a scrollable list. You can then scroll through your saved searches and simply touch a tag name to quickly view tweets on a given topic (Fig. 8.1(b)). As you’ll see, the app also allows you to share, edit