Doug, I've been having a problem seeing my own tweets in search for quite a few months, and I know my tweets were not showing up in a hashtag search at a conference I was at a few weeks ago (which made it really hard to participate in the conference's twitter conversation!). I did file a help ticket a while back and was basically put off by the response from support (essentially it said "too bad, so sad") and they closed the ticket on me. I have not had the time nor patience to follow up on it, though, as I know that my tweets are getting out since people do respond to them. Would be nice if my tweets showed in searches, though.
- h On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 08:20, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >
