I'm Missing from Search!

Are you not seeing yourself or some of your Tweets in Twitter Search? This page will help you figure out why:

If your account does not appear or has a low ranking in user search results:

  • Twitter user search surfaces results with preference to those users who have a complete name, username, and bio on their profile.
  • It is also important to Tweet, retweet, and mention regularly to gain resonance amongst your followers so that search results are up to date.
    • Please note: Though user search results are updated daily, it may take a few days for any changes to your name or username to affect results for a given search term (It takes time to build a new reputation, after all).
  • New accounts may take a few days to start appearing in user search.

If some of your Tweets or hashtags are not appearing in search:

  • If you don't see your Tweets appear under the Top search results, select All from the drop down menu on the search results page.  
  • If only some of your Tweets appear, or if you're missing a few tweets, don't fret – we're working to get as many Tweets into Twitter Search as possible.
  • Due to resource constraints, not every Tweet can be indexed in Twitter Search.
  • Our engineers are always working to index more updates, but we can't force individual, missing Tweets into search.
    • Rest assured that your followers will still see all your updates and @mentions, and we'll update on this page as we improve this issue.

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