Alt News had stumbled upon a startling discovery yesterday. Tweets from the newspaper, The Hindu, were not appearing in Twitter search results. Although the @the_hindu account was active on Twitter, search results for its tweets draw a blank. <\/p>\n
\nWho doesn't want you to read \u2018The Hindu\u2019? @TwitterIndia<\/a>, why is @the_hindu<\/a> not appearing in search results? pic.twitter.com\/ILybNLKWd8<\/a><\/p>\n
— SamSays (@samjawed65) November 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If you search for the tweets of any user, for example Alt News, all the tweets show up when you type \u201cfrom:@altnews\u201d in the Twitter search box. This functionality also allows users to search for certain key words. For example you can type \u201cfrom:@altnews fake news\u201d and you will get all the tweets from Alt News that contain the key words \u201cfake news\u201d in them. In the case of The Hindu, you had to go to their Twitter profile to view their tweets. Not appearing in search results limits the reach of the tweets and does not allow users to search for keywords.<\/p>\n
\nScreenshot pic.twitter.com\/940eww4dGu<\/a><\/p>\n
— Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) November 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
After we raised this issue on Twitter and sent across an email to Twitter, Deputy Web Editor of Hindu, PJ George, responded on Twitter by claiming that this issue has been plaguing them for a while.<\/p>\n
\nWe have got this query before also. Some of our smaller handles come up in search but not the main one. The only explanation I could find was that Twitter blocks search for some handles.<\/p>\n
— P.J. George (@peejaygeorge) November 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n