How to search twitter users by their description?

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I am using twitter4j, I am interested to search a specific users by some words that exists in their description/Bio? is it possible to do that?

for example:

user that have the description: "full time developer...." I want him to be retrieved by searching the word "developer"

searchByDescription("developer");

Is there any method to do it?

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If you read the Twitter documentation you'll see that you can call users/search to get this information.

According to the Twitter4J documentation this is the searchUsers() function.