I'm also curious about this phenomenon. It does seem that certain high-profile users are indexed poorly in search. It doesn't seem to correlate exactly with follower numbers but I've not done much in the way of empirical analysis on that.
It's causing me some trouble on tweetreach.com as I often get requests to run reach reports about things tweeted by high profile users only to find that tweets from those users aren't returned by search. Should I file an issue for this? Hayes On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:54 PM, rob <robsew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm doing a project that deals specifically with P Diddy (twitter.com/ > iamdiddy). When I do a search, no tweets newer than May 6th show up. > However, looking at his timeline, more recent tweets exist. This isn't > a problem with my tweets (twitter.com/robseward). Also, it appears > search is not returning accurate results for other celebrities online. > Does anyone know what's going on here? Is the problem isolated to > users with a high number of followers or is it something non celebrity- > related. Some examples below: > > > P Diddy: > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aiamdiddy > http://twitter.com/iamdiddy > > Ashton Kutcher: > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aaplusk > http://twitter.com/aplusk > > Shaq: > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from=THE_REAL_SHAQ > twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ > > > Me (not a celebrity. Accurate search results). > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+from%3Arobseward > twitter.com/robseward > > > > Rob >
