Elon Musk’s frenemy is working on Twitter

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Elon Musk’s frenemy is working on Twitter

One of Elon Musk'sMusk's fenemies and a former intern at the social networking site is one of the many people who have a much-needed feature on Twitter.

What Happened: Social media commentator Matt Navarra shared an update on Twitter's advanced search filters for mobile. He said that the feature would be available on the iPhone.

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The feature is courtesy of Musk's frenemy George Hotz, a security hacker who has developed iOS jailbreaks and reverse engineering Sony PlayStation 3.

Hotz, who founded Comma.ai, shot to fame in 2015 when he challenged Musk over Tesla's semi-autonomous driving software Autopilot, according to TechCrunch.

In November, Hotz supported Musk's controversial memo telling employees to get extremely hardcore or leave, saying, I'll put my money where my mouth is. I'm down for a 12 week internship at Twitter for the cost of living in SF. In a tweet, Hotz stated that Musk told him to fix Twitter's flawed search system.

Why It's Important: Twitter's advanced search features make it easier for users to find specific tweets based on date, retweets and hashtags. This technology has been on Twitter for a long time but has had issues.

It's still being determined when the feature will roll out. The advanced search filters may be ready to be publicly available, given the feature was reverse-engineered by an app researcher.