Ooooo! I love recursion! On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:04, Barry Hess <bjh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/f3859409fb05127c > -- > Barry Hess > http://bjhess.com > http://iridesco.com > > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:50 AM, bjhess <bjh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We have had some users complain about not being able to find >> themselves on http://followcost.com. I've dug into the code and it >> appears the failure is happening on queries to the search API of the >> form "from:username". >> >> A couple example queries that return zero results: >> >> http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3A1918 >> http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3Athecurrent >> >> Yet clearly these users are active, and legitimate, Twitter users: >> >> http://twitter.com/1918 >> http://twitter.com/thecurrent >> >> But sadly, is it that these users are not being indexed at all in the >> search DB? I get zero results doing a simple from:username search for >> the same users: >> >> http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3A1918 >> http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Athecurrent >> >> These are just a couple examples. Is it common for legitimate, >> upstanding Twitter users to be unindexed in the search DB? >> >> -- >> Barry Hess >> http://followcost.com >> http://bjhess.com > > > -- Abraham Williams | http://the.hackerconundrum.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
