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Look at Twitter's API's available for iOS. Make a search bar that sends new search requests as the user enters characters.

Shouldn't be hard.

I think Stanford's iOS course in 2009 covered Twitter's API's... not sure if the more recent versions of the course cover it anymore.

Edit: Actually, what would the point of the app be? Why not just go to the webpage on an iOS device?
 
I think he just wants to display his thing as an UIWebview, and just create a textfield, once it's been typed in, load up an UIWebview, you need to provide an NSString, since you can format it with NSString format, this is the perfect thing you're looking for, grab the input from the textfield and create your own link and load the UIWebview up, tada
 
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