Being in the Social Media Monitoring space, I often need to test certain functionality with Twitter Search.  For my account, this is very difficult.  For some reason, none of my tweets ever show up in Twitter Search.  Have I been blacklisted?  I know twitter search doesn’t access all tweets, but I figured it would have seen one of mine.

Well, I am not alone.  Twitter has a help desk article on the subject here.  I tried to create a ticket, but it looks like they were hiding the link.  No worries, Rails apps have easy to guess URLS, http://help.twitter.com/requests/new.

Submitted a ticket, we’ll see if anything comes from it.

2 Responses to “I’m Banned from Twitter Search”

1. Kevin Peterson says:

   October 22, 2009 at 12:02 pm

   You probably got flagged for follower churn. I wonder whether Twitter is exposing spam probability to their outside search partners. It’s valuable data and probably hard to calculate from just the content of the stream.
2. New Twitter Account | Darian Shimy says:

   October 26, 2009 at 2:53 pm

   [...] as I mentioned earlier, I no longer show up in Twitter results.  I tried to get it fixed, but it’s not worth my [...]