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Apr 09
  • Well it would seem that during construction today at the @Web24 data centre they deconstructed the security gate mechanism! I'm stuck! 2011-04-04

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Mar 26
  • Holy Crap! Another driver just ran into the back of my car, drove off in a frenzy and nearly caused two more accidents! XMJ 027 Will Pay! 2011-03-22
  • MokonaModoki: Mounting /tmp and /var/tmp as a separate file system http://bit.ly/hcIQNK 2011-03-25

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Mar 12
  • Wanna follow a real loser, check this guy out #troykelly 2011-03-08
  • You Cant Go Past Web24.com.au For Quality of Service and Professionalism. Get your next dedicated server @Web24 Today! 2011-03-12

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Mar 05
  • Checkout this sore loser #troykelly 2011-03-03
  • You can not go past @Web24 for superior internet hosting services. Enterprise dedicated servers, power house VPS and much more! web24.com.au 2011-03-04

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Dec 27

It seems that after yesterday’s extended downtime for Twitter (which no one really raised much of a fuss about, since it’s just another routine day for tweeps worldwide — unlike, say, Skype) has some (severe?) repercussions: search results are being limited to the past ~6 days for low-volume queries.

A quick search for “git tower” on Twitter returns results limited to the past six days, only. (A quick shout-out: Tower.app for OS X gets our award for best Mac development tool of 2010!) And the same goes for searches for “NeoSmart” or “EasyBCD.” (Unfortunately, none of these topics are anywhere near “trending” on twitter, and the low volume of search results serves to prove the point).

Whether this is a case of Twitter purposely capping duration of search results to cope with high load times (each new search is taking ~.6 seconds, which is rather a lot!) or if somehow this data has been lost due to the server outage, it’s cases like these that really illustrate the need for “Twitter archives” that maintain a persistent, searchable store of Twitter feeds. While 3rd party Twitter search utilities *do* exist, nothing official and guaranteed exists as of yet.

Let’s hope this capping of search results is only temporary and that earlier results will become available as the days go by. It would really suck to lose something as basic as fulltext search for tweets older than a certain amount of time (especially if it’s a low number)!

Follow NeoSmart Technologies @NeoSmart on twitter!


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Nov 06
  • Join In The Fun! Join The Chat Room (chgradio.com/chat), Request a Song (chgradio.com/requests) or Call Us (chgradio.com for local numbers) 08:02:03, 2010-11-06

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