Comments on: Twitterfeed is killing Twitter Search

By: Longest Drive

Longest Drive — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:40:55 +0000

This is really true. I agree. Why it has to do with twitter so much these days.

By: creativegirl

creativegirl — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:24:16 +0000

patrick – i had the problem where i was using twitterfeed exclusively to update my twitter page from my blog posts and then twitter dropped me from search. couldn’t get any help so i had to start a new account. i’m guessing i have to make some regular tweets in addition to using the twitterfeed in order to prevent this from happening on the new account. do you know if that is correct? i’m googling everywhere trying to see what to do to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

By: Damon

Damon — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:09:43 +0000

Wow, and all those posts have different bit.ly links as well, which makes it a pain.

It is possible to filter out specific applications from search results using the “-source” operator. For example, this removes twitterfeed – http://search.twitter.com/search?q=WebReach+Ireland+-source%3Atwitterfeed

Unfortunately, there are still a lot of other variations, not to mention potential spam.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:17:52 +0000

I can’t figure out if this is a bad thing all way through. The results are probably relevant even though they are from feeds. Maybe a solution would be to filter out all but one?

By: eitan

eitan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:22:18 +0000

Hi Patrick,

From my short experiance I seems like Twitter is already filltering search results, you can look at my account -
@xbox_problem

The tweets posted by this account don’t appear in the search results, I have a few more accounts with the same problem.
If you know anything about it please let me know how it works.

Great post,
Thank you,
Eitan.

By: Wallace

Wallace — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:12:27 +0000

You did get an insight view that no one mention before.