We've got information sources for all 435 House districts and we're trying to make their respective hashtags a known information source for residents. Not being available in search pretty much makes this whole concept a dead end ... we actually don't want followers on the userid that publishes this information - it's way too noisy to follow.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:38 AM, natefanaro <natefan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's not really an issue with volume. You are way below the hourly > limit of the number of tweets allowed. Once you hit that limit you'll > know. The api will return an error stating you're over your allowed > status updates for the hour. > > From what I can tell not being indexed by search only affects search. > If someone is following or if you mention someone you they will still > see your tweets. I can't speak for Twitter as to why they leave > accounts out of search. It could either be related to reducing how > much data the search service goes through or trying to lessen spammy > tweets. You might be able to email the team at a...@twitter.com to get > back in the search index. > > If you are only using search to track your sent tweets you could store > tweet data in your own database. > > On Nov 10, 11:11 am, neal rauhauser <nrauhau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been kind of slinking along in development mode and I'm not > terribly > > slick with Twitter. I'm now at a point where there is going to be a LOT > of > > attention on this - how does one ask/register/apologize/grovel to be able > to > > do a higher volume of messaging? > > > > I've been digging for tech support and right now the low resistance > path > > seems to be scooting into Boston, knocking on the door at Spark Capital, > and > > asking for Bijan Sabet. I hope there's an easier method :-) > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, natefanaro <natefan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Looks like that account is no longer in the search index. You can test > > > that by searching for from:ProgressivePST > > >http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3AProgressivePST > > > > > This probably happened because of the amount of automated tweets > > > containing links that you have. > > > > > On Nov 10, 10:41 am, neal rauhauser <nrauhau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have a userid that automatically places messages for campaigns > and > > > > initiatives - political stuff, House & Senate, health care reform, > etc. > > > > > >http://twitter.com/ProgressivePST > > > > > > Last night I rounded up links for all 435 House seats and began > > > > populating their hashtags. > > > > > > #MA08 is represented by Michael Capuanohttp://www.house.gov/capuano/ > > > > #CA18 is represented by Dennis Cardozahttp://www.house.gov/cardoza/ > > > > #MO03 is represented by John Carnahanhttp:// > > > carnahan.house.gov/....@repcarnahan > > > > > > The updates seem to flow based on inspection of the userid's > link, > > > but > > > > neither hashtags nor @ messages appear in public search. Am I doing > > > > something wrong? Is the userid tagged as spam? I'd really like to > hear > > > from > > > > someone at Twitter about this ... > > > > > > -- > > > > mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // > > > > GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com > > > > IM: nealrauhauser > > > > -- > > mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // > > GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com > > IM: nealrauhauser > -- mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com IM: nealrauhauser
