I'm feeling a little peripheral at the moment. You see, I have had several messages from Twitter buddies telling me that I'm being filtered out of searches, and I also notice that my hashtags don't show up in Twitter streams. This is most disconcerting. I tweet at conferences and my tweets get swallowed up in the miasma of the twittersphere as if they never twittered in the first place. It's as if I don't exist on Twitter at all. I'm a Twoutcast. It's as though the head coach has told me to sit the game out on the bench. Twubstituted for unsportsmanlike behaviour. Sidelined, that's what I am. I guess I have inadvertently breached one of Twitter's many convoluted rules. You know, the ones they don't bend over backwards to explain to you in too much detail. I don't know what wrong I have done, but it must have been a heinous crime, and being punished I am (Gee thanks Yoda). Ah well, we shall wait and see. Kirsteen MacDonald (@k_macd) came to my rescue, recommending some steps to rectify the problem. So I followed her instructions, and sent out a help call to Twitter on Friday, and I am now completely in their hands. Whether I am restored to full priviledges is entirely up to Sir's whims, so until then I shall sit scowling on the naughty step.
I wonder has anyone else found themselves in a similar predicament? Did you get the problem resolved? What were the issues involved. Or are you still sitting on the naughty step too? I think we should be told.
Update:
I am delighted to report that as of the evening of Sunday 6th December, I have been able to participate again in the hashtag streams. This was just in time to take part remotely in #ascilite09 - I feel a part of the Twitter family once again! I'm also as of Monday night reinstated onto the 'Find People' Twitter search. I'm no longer the invisible man! Thanks Twitter.
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The naughty step by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.
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