Hi,
those are probably accounts which twitter filtered out. The docs are pretty
clear on this and give practical advice:
http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_concepts
Both the Streaming API and the Search API filter statuses created by a small
proportion of accounts based upon status quality metrics. For example,
frequent and repetitious status updates may, in some instances, and in
combination with other metrics, result in a different status quality score
for a given account. Results that are not selected by user id, for example:
samples and keyword track, are filtered by this status quality metric.
Results that are selected by user id, currently only results from the follow
predicate, are unfiltered and allow all matching statuses to pass. If an
expected user's statuses are not present in a non-follow-predicate stream
type, manually cross-check the user against Search results. If the user's
statuses are also not returned in Search, you can assume that the user's
statuses will not be returned by non-follow-predicated streams.
For more details see: http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/42646
which states, in part:
In order to keep your search results relevant, Twitter filters search results
for quality. Our search results will not include suspended accounts, or
accounts that may jeopardize search quality. Material that degrades search
relevancy or creates a bad search experience for people using Twitter may be
permanently removed.
On Jul 13, 2010, at 23:30 , codeless wrote:
Hey there, I'm working with Juitter (http://juitter.com) on a project
and have noticed that some users tweets won't appear on the live
stream. And not just accounts that are set to private, but regular
twitter accounts. I have done some research and have found some saying
that not all Twitter accounts are indexed by the Twitter search
engine. Is there anything I can change in Juitter to fix it so it'll
work with all non-private accounts? Or a way to force Twitter into
indexing a certain account? Any and all information is welcomed. Thank
you for your help.
