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Why can't I search for "Feedburner" on Twitter?

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Looks to me like the results all include short URLs (bit.ly, tinyurl) that when expanded go to feeds that do use or include FeedBurner.

This JavaScript turns short URLs long:

    javascript:void(function(){if(typeof%20jQuery%20==%20'undefined'){var%20s=document.createElement('script');s.src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);}var%20l=document.createElement('script');l.src='http://www.longurlplease.com/js/longurlplease.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(l);function%20runIfReady(){try{if($.longurlplease){%20clearInterval(interval);%20$.longurlplease();}}catch(e){}};%20var%20interval%20=%20window.setInterval(runIfReady,100);}())

Or http://www.longurlplease.com/

But why? Why doesn't it give me the results where someone says, "hey, anybody else notice their feedburner counts fluctuating?"

The same reason why no one could search for "flotilla" a few weeks ago. Twitter search is often broken. It's not a conspiracy, it's just intermittent technical problems.

Then how come the difference between the shasum's of "feedburner" and "flotilla" contains the date of JFK's death on Numa's Calendar? Huh? We're on to you, Twitterati!

"FeedBurner" hasn't been searchable on Twitter for months. It's not just a temporary glitch or outage. I also don't think it's a conspiracy per se. The question is why Twitter search mysteriously & continuously fails for this very common one-word term.

I'm getting results right now http://cl.ly/2bd805d3c78bd9becea6 (from Spain)

... except the results don't have much to do with Feedburner, do they?

...except they do! all of the urls in the result set for me contain "feedburner" in the final extended version.

quite confusing for most users.

"feed burner" works

I'm sorry if that was a stupid comment.

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