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Why can't I search for "Feedburner" on Twitter?

chaosmachine 16y ago
The same reason why no one could search for "flotilla" a few weeks ago. Twitter search is often broken. It's not a conspiracy, it's just intermittent technical problems.
- thunk 16y ago
  Then how come the difference between the shasum's of "feedburner" and "flotilla" contains the date of JFK's death on Numa's Calendar? Huh? We're on to you, Twitterati!
- codingthewheel 16y ago
  "FeedBurner" hasn't been searchable on Twitter for months. It's not just a temporary glitch or outage. I also don't think it's a conspiracy per se. The question is why Twitter search mysteriously & continuously fails for this very common one-word term.
barredo 16y ago
I'm getting results right now http://cl.ly/2bd805d3c78bd9becea6 http://cl.ly/2bd805d3c78bd9becea6 (from Spain)
- zaatar 16y ago
  ... except the results don't have much to do with Feedburner, do they?
  - pplante 16y ago
    ...except they do! all of the urls in the result set for me contain "feedburner" in the final extended version. quite confusing for most users.
andrewcamel 16y ago
"feed burner" works I'm sorry if that was a stupid comment.
Terretta 16y ago
Looks to me like the results all include short URLs (bit.ly, tinyurl) that when expanded go to feeds that do use or include FeedBurner. This JavaScript turns short URLs long: javascript:void(function(){if(typeof%20jQuery%20==%20'undefined'){var%20s=document.createElement('script');s.src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);}var%20l=document.createElement('script');l.src='http://www.longurlplease.com/js/longurlplease.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(l);function%20runIfReady(){try{if($.longurlplease){%20clearInterval(interval);%20$.longurlplease();}}catch(e){}};%20var%20interval%20=%20window.setInterval(runIfReady,100);}()) Or http://www.longurlplease.com/ http://www.longurlplease.com/
- codingthewheel 16y ago
  But why? Why doesn't it give me the results where someone says, "hey, anybody else notice their feedburner counts fluctuating?"

The same reason why no one could search for "flotilla" a few weeks ago. Twitter search is often broken. It's not a conspiracy, it's just intermittent technical problems.

thunk 16y ago
Then how come the difference between the shasum's of "feedburner" and "flotilla" contains the date of JFK's death on Numa's Calendar? Huh? We're on to you, Twitterati!
codingthewheel 16y ago
"FeedBurner" hasn't been searchable on Twitter for months. It's not just a temporary glitch or outage. I also don't think it's a conspiracy per se. The question is why Twitter search mysteriously & continuously fails for this very common one-word term.

barredo 16y ago

I'm getting results right now http://cl.ly/2bd805d3c78bd9becea6 http://cl.ly/2bd805d3c78bd9becea6 (from Spain)

zaatar 16y ago
... except the results don't have much to do with Feedburner, do they?
- pplante 16y ago
  ...except they do! all of the urls in the result set for me contain "feedburner" in the final extended version. quite confusing for most users.

andrewcamel 16y ago

"feed burner" works I'm sorry if that was a stupid comment.

Terretta 16y ago

Looks to me like the results all include short URLs (bit.ly, tinyurl) that when expanded go to feeds that do use or include FeedBurner. This JavaScript turns short URLs long: javascript:void(function(){if(typeof%20jQuery%20==%20'undefined'){var%20s=document.createElement('script');s.src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);}var%20l=document.createElement('script');l.src='http://www.longurlplease.com/js/longurlplease.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(l);function%20runIfReady(){try{if($.longurlplease){%20clearInterval(interval);%20$.longurlplease();}}catch(e){}};%20var%20interval%20=%20window.setInterval(runIfReady,100);}()) Or http://www.longurlplease.com/ http://www.longurlplease.com/

codingthewheel 16y ago
But why? Why doesn't it give me the results where someone says, "hey, anybody else notice their feedburner counts fluctuating?"