Support KB Category: Search

My Tweets are protected but still show in search

Why would this happen?

  • After you protect your Tweets, only you and your approved followers can read your updates or see your Tweets in Twitter Search.
  • If you at one time had public Tweets, those Tweets will no longer be public or appear in public Twitter Search results. However, unprotecting your Tweets will cause …

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Why am I hitting a rate limit using Twitter search?

In order to control abuse, Twitter limits how often you can search from a single network address.

If you access Twitter from a corporation, event or conference, you may be sharing the same network address with many people. In some of these cases, you may run into an issue with Twitter search rate limiting.

Why is my Twitter profile in Google search?

Your Twitter profile shows up in Google searches because Twitter has a high Google search rank. Keep in mind that the words you write in updates may also be indexed and come up in a search for those terms.

Depending on the degree to which this bothers you, you can do several things:

Why am I missing from search?

Are you not seeing your account or some of your Tweets in Twitter search? This article will help you understand why.

My Tweets and hashtags don’t appear in search

While we may not show every Tweet in search results, here are a few reasons you may not be seeing yours: