Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links (Post 16067947)

Twitter is growing so fast (lolllll @ 30% retention rate thouugh) that they haven't made their search function spam proof. Looks like Twittr has now fallen victim to the old skool spamming method that anally ruptured Altavista--keyword stuffing based on news trends.

It's gotten so bad that twitter search, just like it's Direct message (DM) function is pretty much is useless

See an example below

http://i32.tinypic.com/n50h3b.jpg

It looks pretty simple

Find a hot topic that gets lots of searches--Google trends is probably a good place to find this info

Create a tweet with that keyword

Mix it with spiced ham

Result = Twitter search results that are as worthless as the steam rising from a freshly laid pile of horse shit:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:mad::helpme

Props to Wordpress How to Spotter for this

Originally Posted by mobilefun1987 (Post 16068025)

I've tried that tactic.

doesn't get you anywhere though

Originally Posted by budsbabes (Post 16068018)

thing is the tweets move so fast on a hot topic i wonder how many clicks those can generate.

Originally Posted by mobilefun1987 (Post 16068049)

let me try one and i'll post a screenshot.

I'll use bit.ly to see the amount of clicks it generates.

Originally Posted by mobilefun1987 (Post 16068097)

Yep, it ain't even worth posting the screenshot.

7 clicks! :1orglaugh

Not excactly beneficial by means of traffic.

Originally Posted by budsbabes (Post 16068124)

i'm sure there are black hat programs that auto generate thousands of accounts, follow people than hammer out tweets with keywords grabbed from the hot topics.

Originally Posted by budsbabes (Post 16068111)

would have to autogenerate tons of tweets and accounts.

Originally Posted by Blazed (Post 16068138)

Bingo. Mobilefun you're a noob .

Originally Posted by mobilefun1987 (Post 16068283)

Thats great.

So if one tweet gets 7 hits, how many do you need to generate a decent amount of traffic?

say one tweet gets 5-10 hits you'll need 1000 accounts to generate 10k worth of traffic.

just doesn't seem like it is worth bothering with TBH.

Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links (Post 16068291)

The concept is called SCRIPTING, young padawan

Originally Posted by From Twitter's Official Response

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.

Originally Posted by From Twitter's Official Response

* Posting duplicate content (links or tweets)
* Misuse of hashtags (words followed by the '#' sign)
* Sending automated tweets or replies
* Using bots or applications to post similar messages based on keywords
* Posting similar messages over several accounts
* Abusing trending topics
* Aggressively following and un-following people (a common spam tactic)
* Re-posting public content without attribution to the author

Twitter may automatically remove accounts engaging in these behaviors from search in order to ensure the best experience for everyone.

Originally Posted by vdc-Loki (Post 16069509)

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-