lol, Juicy That is the LEAST of the issues with Twitter right now, and TRUST me when I say this, NOW the search is ONLY good for singly DRIVE-BY 'spams' after you do it more then twice (five if they are slacking) you can say GOODBYE to your tweets in search....
They have this wonderful loophole where they will BAN YOU (not from the site lol) but
the "Find People" "Search" "Hashtag" "Trending Topics" and "From:" and NOTHING you say no matter what it is, will ever EVER make it to search....
They have been playing with it for the last few months (under the guise of a "glitch") When in reality they have been "fine-tuning" it.
You don't have to believe me if you don't want, but if your bored do this.....
Search TWITTER here on GFY, find a thread that features a nice selection of GFY Twitter accounts, then head over to twitter and do the following....
(1) first goto the person's page itself (IE twitter.com/whatevernamehere) make a lil mental note of: THE LAST TIME A POST WAS MADE
(2) Next scroll down to the bottom of the page and click SEARCH
(3) type this: from:whatevernamehere (IE the twitter name MINUS the @)
(3a) I would bet dollars to donuts you will find a GOOD number say
"No results for from:whatevernamehere"
what the from: hashtag does is display the post from that actual user. Twitter has been SWEEPING the site clean of accounts they deem to be "Not Search Relevant" and THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of accounts have been "banned from search"
Now what exactly is Twitter's criteria of being "Not Search Relevant"?
(4) go back to Twitter home page, and click on FIND PEOPLE
(5) Type in any username you used in (3) and again dollars to donuts allot of them will say.... "We couldn't find anyone named whatevernamehere."
(6) Finally simply type in twitter.com/whatevernamehere in your address bar and VIOLA there is the account
Their blocking porn, MLM, spam, Religious, Comedy, multi-users, rapid tweeters, etc etc at the speed of light over the last month or so.
BUT fear NOT, even though you may be banned from search you CAN still gain more followers (And honestly it makes ya feel even better when your banned and the numbers still keep climbing lol)
If you want any more info about this, feel free to ask and I'll share what I know.
PS, if you want more reading here are some "official links to the matter"
A "Call To Arms" Blog Post About "Search Broken" June 5th 2009
OFFICIAL TWITTER "BUG" THREAD (thousands effected thread hit 100 pages before addressed by Twitter staff)
Twitter's "OFFICIAL" Response (BACK-DATED) To appear that it was created June 22nd (this has been proven to never existing until about 2 days ago lol...
UPDATE while grabbing that link the page NOW says it was made May 29th LMAO
-Loki-