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By: David Sterry

David Sterry — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:04:22 +0000

Speaking as someone who runs a search engine, all the wiseguys did was delete their tweets once they posted them. Adding messages to the index is easy, deleting them(as there’s no feed for that at least externally to Twitter) is another story.

By: Michel

Michel — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:42:14 +0000

Well twitter APIis not robust, and I have noticed that when you delete a tweet twitter and search doesn’t remove the reference in the data base, so I would assume if you post a tweet every single minute and remove the tweet just after it is posted you generates phantom tweets which would appear in the search if they are numerous enough…

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Someone Is Tampering With Twitter Search « Campbes6’s Weblog — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:00:43 +0000

[...] Is Tampering With Twitter Search Twitter was informed that tweets were showing up on the search engine that don’t actually exist. [...]

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Puzzled: Suck My Lamp? at Kyle:Web — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:29:07 +0000

[...] that something like this was trending. It’s not the first time that odd trends have popped up. TechCrunch reported on an odd occurrence a few days ago, where it seems like Twitter Search was getting pranked by accounts (probably [...]

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links for 2008-10-09 « General Musing — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:03:37 +0000

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By: WhatADay:-)

WhatADay:-) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:10:15 +0000

@Mark Nope, they are testing web-bots by having test accounts dump sample text. Next thing they will put the links to sites to drive traffic by putting random qoutes (like madlibes) i.e. “My laptop caught fire… I will buy a “

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Oct 2008 12 / Oct 2008 11 « Connect the Tweets — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:58:32 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:00:38 +0000

There is an alternative answer to the “hacking” or “spamming” options. Perhaps this was some debugging code accidentally left in by a programmer? This would seem to make more sense to me as it is the same message appearing over and over. . .if I were a spammer, I’d be inserting links to a product. . .if I were a hacker, I’d be running a XSS attack or defaming the site.

Just a thought.

By: www.landofpics.blogspot.com

www.landofpics.blogspot.com — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:29:21 +0000

Do not mess with twitter bird

By: Brian Tanner

Brian Tanner — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:00:32 +0000

It may just be an easy way to spam twitter. I just gave it a shot. Add the tweet What a day and then delete it. It sends you to the top of the search. Seeing as most of the search results are from fast cash sites, hairloss, etc. It seems it’s just spam.

By: omtv

omtv — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:31:24 +0000

it’s still happening…

By: huh

huh — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:28:17 +0000

Those are signs from ET, you fools.

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Twitterの検索エンジンを混乱させているのは誰だ？ — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:11:16 +0000

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By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:44:01 +0000

I just get frustrated because you can delete a Tweet but it lives forever in Twitter Searchland.

By: Ahsan

Ahsan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:23:34 +0000

same here

By: buzzdup.com

buzzdup.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:53:11 +0000

Who’s Messing With Twitter Search?…

A tipster informed us this morning that Twitter’s search engine (formerly known as Summize before it was acquired this summer) has been showing tweets in its results that don’t actually exist on Twitter itself….

By: Srednarb

Srednarb — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:34:55 +0000

I think they fixed it already.

By: Eric Rank

Eric Rank — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:01:50 +0000

I call it a bug. I’m willing to bet that there’s some fancy interpretation on the string “What a day” that the Ruby language is translating into a real date.

What do the Ruby folks out there think?

By: Humorless European

Humorless European — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:00:26 +0000

type webtrafficjuggernaut in google and you may find the answer…

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:55:53 +0000

ditto

By: "www.ShawnDrewry.com"

"www.ShawnDrewry.com" — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:38:47 +0000

Twitter what now?

By: Eric Jensen

Eric Jensen — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:14:35 +0000

Really? I don’t see any “what a day” from you in search: http://tinyurl.com/4hnos5

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:08:57 +0000

Duh, and yet fools continue to use it’s “service”.

By: Raskin

Raskin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:55:29 +0000

YAWN…siesta time.