[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches

2009-06-06 Thread Barry Hess
Unfortunately I'm not in the position to file a ticket with support for every "spam" user on Twitter. You may want to consider a more thorough algorithm for your spam filtering. For instance, I'm pretty sure public radio assets are not taking part in spam activities. We'll just need to code around

[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches

2009-06-05 Thread Abraham Williams
My experience interacting with http://help.twitter.com this year has been nothing for 2 months until the ticket auto closes. Support is hard to scale for 40 million accounts. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:33, Howard Siegel wrote: > Doug, > > I've been having a problem seeing my own tweets in search

[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches

2009-06-05 Thread Howard Siegel
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 tic

[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches

2009-06-05 Thread Doug Williams
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,

[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches

2009-06-05 Thread Abraham Williams
O! I love recursion! On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:04, Barry Hess 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 wrote: > >> We ha

[twitter-dev] Re: Search problems for from:username searches

2009-06-05 Thread Barry Hess
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 wrote: > We have had some users complain about not being able to find > themselves on http://followcost.com.