One of the issues with Twitter has always been, apart from straining your eyes looking at the photos in the sidebar on people's profiles, there was no way to find people you wanted to add as friends.

Twitter solved that yesterday with the addition of a Search box.

How did that functionality take so long to roll out?

Having done a search on Twitter, the results (depending on your search term obviously) look like the following:

Now, if only they would roll out a search Tweets!