Yes you can search Twitter for the latest tweets from one of your friends to find that elusive link. At present that means a search over only the last few days. Using Google search for Updates on the other hand yields far too many matches for a @twitterfriend. Twitflink is a really simple and effective add-on tool for Twitter that makes finding that link very easy indeed. Jane @c4lpt tweeted about this tool and I searched her Twitter handle with additional keyword filter ‘link’:
Note that the search goes back a long way and only shows tweets with links and the chosen keyword. Excellent!
