Twitter

I have been taken out of “Twitter Search,” but I am not in Twitter Jail. When I realized my tweets were not showing up in Twitter Chat, I contacted Twitter. I received the following letter back:

Hello,

Due to current resource constraints, not every Tweet can be indexed in Twitter Search at the moment. You can read more about this on our help page for this issue:

http://support.twitter.com/articles/66018

I’ve confirmed that your account is affected by our current resource constraints, and isn’t being filtered for any reason beyond this known issue. Our engineers are working hard to index more updates, and we hope to get your Tweets into the index soon.

While I’m not able to force your Tweets to appear in search, your followers should still receive all of your updates and we will still deliver your @replies to other users.

Love,

Twitter.

(Okay, so they really didn’t say, “Love – Twitter.”) Anyways, this is still a problem. A huge problem. (Side note: in the past week or so seems I may be back in action!) But here is why this was and could potentially be a huge problem:

1. Twitter Chats. These are super important for me. I love connecting with people in a chat format, making new friends and furthering relationships with current ones. But I never show up in chat. Furthermore, I’m a community manager who believes in chats. We do one weekly. I’ve never been able to lead from “me!”

2. When I work with brands who ask that I use specific hashtags, that’s great and all, but how effective is it for them if they can’t track me mentioning them and the corresponding hashtag?

3. Events. I try to connect IRL with people while we are live tweeting at events. The only problem? They never know I’m there. I have to stalk people down to find them!

Finally, and this has to do with me and yet nothing with me: Why are some accounts affected by Twitter’s current resource constraints? Twitter should not have this as an ongoing problem, and mine has been ongoing for many months.

I’m not leaving Twitter. It’s probably my most favorite platform. But this is very, very frustrating and disappointing. Even if I’m not in Twitter Jail, I sure feel like it. I sure hope this past week has been a good indicator that I am being freed once and for all!

Has anyone else out there been booted from Twitter Search, but not in jail?

Photo provided by Chris Willis

Micro-blogging is definitely a part of the new(er) “online” communications. Twitter is not the only one obviously, but it’s the platform I use the most. I wanted to include this piece into Campaign #HireHoff because, quite honestly, Twitter is probably my most favorite platform. (Side note: My voicemail even states, “If you want to reach me sooner, feel free to tweet at me at @SarahKayHoffman.” Now that’s some integration!)

I wanted to demonstrate my passion and competency with Twitter via my Campaign, since I believe that many businesses either already utilize it or will eventually utilize it for a multitude of reasons. Furthermore, I had to include the platform, since the entire campaign was mainly distributed through it.

This part of the campaign was a very simple screen shot of my Twitter profile (my how Twitter has changed in a short amount of time!) and a tweet by @AmandaMiller (anticipating the campaign – I had been randomly “building it up”).

Micro-Blogging (via Twitter)

I didn’t focus a lot of design time on the Twitter piece, since I knew I would ultimately spend a lot of time on it once the campaign was finalized and ready for distribution. My main goal was to show that I am on Twitter, actively use and engage with people on Twitter and understand that from a business perspective there are many benefits from the platform.

Think about it: What might you get across in your own Campaign #JobSearch in 140 characters or less?

Booted from Twitter Search, but Not in Jail

Campaign #JobSearch – Micro-Blogging (via Twitter)

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