Twitter Introduces 'Name Results'

It seems that somewhere in the night theTwitter fairy stole in and introduced a new feature: Name results.


While we're not seeing this sort of result for all name searches, on selected searches Twitter is returning results for potential Twitter users that match the searcher's query.

We assume this is just another way of making the search feature more useful as Twitter's own variation on blended search results. As it stands it can be quite difficult to find other people on Twitter without knowing their exact username, so this looks like a step in the right direction to us.