Jul
13
Twitter Search gone mad!
Posted by | Posted in News, Pakistan | Posted on 13-Jul-2009
Tagged Under : API, hashPakistan, Pakistan, Twitter
Yes, I know what I just said that … its true because my new project HashPakistan is using Twitter Search API to get all posts with hashtag #Pakistan and last night twitter gave it results containing #ashes (and has nothing to do with Pakistan).
I noticed it today and removed those updates from the twitter timeline. Hopefully it does not happen again.
P.S. There are no official words on the Twitter Blog regarding this
[...] Well, my initial estimates were wrong. I thought I could retweet the posts and Twitter would give me accurate results. The problem is with twitter results. They are giving me wrong and irrelevant results. [...]
[...] blogged about Twitter’s invalid search results in an early post titled Twitter Search gone mad!. Today I noticed the same thing again when I logged in to HashPakistan’s control panel. There [...]
[...] results again! I blogged about Twitter’s invalid search results in an early post titled Twitter Search gone mad!. Today I noticed the same thing again when I logged in to HashPakistan’s control panel. There [...]