Problems with Twitter Search

[jan]

Hi everyone,

first of all I'd like to say that I always love to turn to this group
as I know I will receive quick and helpful feedback. Thanks guys for
devoting so much time.


I have encountered discrepancies between Twitter Search (and its API)
and regular Twitter pages regarding a couple of users. See for
instance:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Am_tina (no tweets here)
http://twitter.com/m_tina (avid twitter user)

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Anicolane (tweets stopped 1
month ago)
http://twitter.com/nicolane (has a lot of tweets in the past days)

I have more samples to share but it feels strange to post random
Twitter user names here, so I'd rather stop.

Does anyone experience the same issues? Has anyone found out what the
reason for this is? People at Twitter, are you aware of this?


Again, thank you so much for your time, best regards,

Jan

[Chad Etzel]

Yes, I too have experienced these things (namely searching from:user
showing results from months ago while their actual timeline is still
active). Eventually they have each seemed to fix themselves, but I
have no idea if it was b/c somebody fixed it manually, or if it was
some glitch that just magically went away...

Anyway, yes I've seen this behavior and have gotten many questions
from my app users when they notice it, too. I never really know what
to tell them.

-Chad

[jan]

same here :-)

On Jan 9, 4:48 pm, "Chad Etzel" <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I too have experienced these things (namely searching from:user
> showing results from months ago while their actual timeline is still
> active).  Eventually they have each seemed to fix themselves, but I
> have no idea if it was b/c somebody fixed it manually, or if it was
> some glitch that just magically went away...
>
> Anyway, yes I've seen this behavior and have gotten many questions
> from my app users when they notice it, too.  I never really know what
> to tell them.
>
> -Chad
>

> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:16 AM, jan <gnue...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > first of all I'd like to say that I always love to turn to this group
> > as I know I will receive quick and helpful feedback. Thanks guys for
> > devoting so much time.
>
> > I have encountered discrepancies between Twitter Search (and its API)
> > and regular Twitter pages regarding a couple of users. See for
> > instance:
>
> >http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Am_tina(no tweets here)
> >http://twitter.com/m_tina(avid twitter user)
>

> >http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Anicolane(tweets stopped 1
> > month ago)
> >http://twitter.com/nicolane(has a lot of tweets in the past days)

[dougw]

Unfortunately true here, too.

On Jan 9, 12:26 pm, jan <gnue...@gmail.com> wrote:
> same here :-)
>
> On Jan 9, 4:48 pm, "Chad Etzel" <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, I too have experienced these things (namely searching from:user
> > showing results from months ago while their actual timeline is still
> > active).  Eventually they have each seemed to fix themselves, but I
> > have no idea if it was b/c somebody fixed it manually, or if it was
> > some glitch that just magically went away...
>
> > Anyway, yes I've seen this behavior and have gotten many questions
> > from my app users when they notice it, too.  I never really know what
> > to tell them.
>
> > -Chad
>
> > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:16 AM, jan <gnue...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi everyone,
>
> > > first of all I'd like to say that I always love to turn to this group
> > > as I know I will receive quick and helpful feedback. Thanks guys for
> > > devoting so much time.
>
> > > I have encountered discrepancies between Twitter Search (and its API)
> > > and regular Twitter pages regarding a couple of users. See for
> > > instance:
>
> > >http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Am_tina(notweets here)
> > >http://twitter.com/m_tina(avidtwitter user)
>
> > >http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Anicolane(tweetsstopped 1
> > > month ago)

> > >http://twitter.com/nicolane(hasa lot of tweets in the past days)

[Matt Sanford]

Hi Jan,

  There are some users who do not appear in search because of an admin setting on the account. I've been talking to the support team (sup...@twitter.com) about this today and I suggest that you refer any user complaints there as well. Our spam and support people can check the account in question and find out how it got in this state as well as let the user know how to keep from running afoul of this in the future.

Thanks;

  — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford

Did You Know? … that Matt types that stupid sig every time. Man, I really need to save it.