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If you can’t find yourself in Twitter Search..

I just came across a recent help page from Twitter (from June) about what to do if your tweets are not showing up in the twitter search. As it already says on the Selective Twitter Status help page, your tweets not showing in Twitter search is one of the most common reasons for the app not working for you, particularly if it used to work but suddenly stopped.

To check if your tweets are coming up in Twitter search go to http://search.twitter.com/ and type in your twitter username. For example, my tweets should show up at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=andyy. If your tweets don’t appear, Twitter basically say to check Twitter isn’t having any problems at the moment, and if everything is otherwise fine (and your account is public, of course) then your tweets “have most likely been filtered out of our search index for quality reasons” which sadly isn’t much help (unless you really have been spamming, in which case you just gotta live with it.. ;)

As I mention on the help page, the last thing to try is to protect your Twitter account and then make it public again. You’ll need to post a new tweet after doing this to check if it worked.