Please file a help ticket at http://help.twitter.com. @thecurrents tweets almost always have links that point back to the same source. This is normally indicative of spam which may explain why the account is no longer in search. The folks in support can help you take care issues like these. Thanks, Doug
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:04 AM, 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 > > >
