There are several factors involved in surfacing in search results, chief among them that the search index represents only around a week's worth of Tweets. Additionally, the search index is filtered for quality and some tweets and/or accounts will not be represented: http://support.twitter.com/articles/66018-my-tweets-or-hashtags-are-missing-from-search
Here's a summary of reasons a user might not appear in search: > > 1. *Your tweets aren't recent: *We only index tweets for about 6 days. > If your most recent tweet is older than that, please tweet again and check. > 2. *Your account is private:* Private or "protected" accounts do not > appear in search.Learn more about protected accounts > here<http://support.twitter.com/articles/14016-about-public-and-protected-accounts> > . > 3. *Your account is new, or you recently changed your username: *It can > take a few days for new and updated accounts to be indexed by search. > 4. *Your email is bouncing:* If you log in and see a big red warning > when you're attwitter.com that says your email address is having > delivery issues, please take the steps to fix it! We want to show you in > search, but we need you to fix your email first (see Screenshot 2 below). > 5. *You are being filtered out of search due to a quality issue*: In > order to provide the best search experience for users, Twitter > automatically > filters search results for quality. This Search Quality help > page<http://support.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/42646> has > information why accounts are filtered from search > 6. *You are missing because of current resource constraints: *Right > now, some users may not be seeing their Tweets because of resource > constraints. This is more likely affecting you if you're a new user (with > an > account less than a couple of weeks old). Our search engineers are working > on this known issue, and your Tweets should start showing up in search > soon! > > Taylor On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:17 PM, jparicka <[email protected]> wrote: > Why is it not returning all search results? E.e. when I search for > @fu2ri I can clearly see few tweets missing. No matter what token/ > credentials I use. Are Search results also not guaranteed to appear? > Is there a time-lock of some sort on Search? Thanks! > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
