Starting yesterday i noticed that twitter's home page thing was not showing me new stuff, just constantly the same old posts over the entire day. I don't have the search issue you are having, so my guess is that if it isn't something specific to your browser then they may be rolling out different changes for different user accounts for some reason.
E: i just loaded up a tor window, and while not logged into twitter it would not show the latest posts:
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