Why on Earth would Twitter limit the number of Twitter searches a Twitter user may conduct -- a typical user, such as yours truly, not some resource-piggy third-party app or bot?
And, why on Earth would one of the most talked-about companies on the Internet make it so darn difficult to get an answer to such simple question? [Read more...]
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You can actually get around the search limitation if you can guess the person's twitter account.
I figure you spend the same amount of time searching (using the twitter search tool) or guessing.
What helps with guessing is people usually use their full names as their twitter account. i.e. John Smith.
If you know John Smith, try http://www.twitter.com/johnsmith
If you click on 'Follow' and you are logged into Twitter. It will add the person.
Otherwise, I'd use Google, type in: twitter.com first-name last-name
And then see if a page (in the form of twitter.com/username) for Twitter comes up
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Nice post - albeit I tend to get a little confused by people who use a site for free then complain about it. I know it is frustrating and you wish you could do whatever you wanted to do. However, there are costs involved, servers, software, storage, employees, benefits, air conditioning, heating, lights, furniture (albeit a fixed asset), rent or mortgage, marketing, sales, call center tech help and what else can we pile onto a small business just trying to make a name for themselves and still they get bashed -
Let's be nice to them and gosh - do you know anyone at HP or IBM that would donate a server or two - I would say Sun Microsystems, but I don't know their status - but what about a hosting solution donation.
I have had wonderful experience with them and they are great about customer service albeit - it did take them an hour to get back with me - yuck that sucked.
Anyway, I just think if we all had patience with Microsoft and how they scammed the American Public with the bugs and how they were in a garage just barely getting by - I think we can do this for Twitter - so what do you say - give them a little break or find out what their needs are and make a donation - we do use this alot. don't we?
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