Users search doesn't show up some verified account

GermainSouquet · 2015-01-29T12:00:06.069Z

Hi,

Today I experienced some weird behavior on the /1.1/users/search.json REST API endpoint. when I look for a specific user, it doesn’t show up in the search results. It seems to occur only with verified accounts. for example requesting /1.1/users/search.json/q=BRITAwards or /1.1/users/search.json?q=samsmithworld won’t return me those user, even if the query matches exactly the screen_name of those particular users.

I usually do those query via twitter4j in Java, but I did the testing with POSTMAN as well. Also tested using different accounts.
Twitter search input return those results.

Is that a known issue? Am I doing something wrong around this ?

Thanks in advance

APaternite · 2015-01-29T16:30:16.368Z

I’m experiencing the exact same thing. The users/search endpoint is broken.

Anyone out there know how long this will take to fix? My site relies on Twitter search and I may have to move it to using the Facebook API instead.

ePirat · 2015-01-29T19:41:21.732Z

It seems some other users experience the same, there might be some issues currently.

andypiper · 2015-01-30T12:09:19.519Z

Thanks for all the reports, we will investigate.

GermainSouquet · 2015-01-30T12:20:09.445Z

Great news @andypiper, thanks!

andypiper · 2015-01-30T14:07:48.623Z

Tracking internally as PREL-11824

Sky · 2015-01-31T10:41:39.066Z

In my case, twitter only show up the first 20 results and page parameter does not work.

I even tested this on Twitter.com. Twitter people search results only show up 20 results: (example: https://twitter.com/search?q=twitter&src=typd&mode=users)

The same results appears on the official twitter app for iOS.

BTW. I’m sorry. What’s the meaning of Tracking internally as PREL-11824. I’m new here you know

ePirat · 2015-01-31T19:38:11.627Z

“PREL-11824” is the internal tracking number for this issue / bug. It is useful i.e. if you want to ask about a status update or refer to this issue. Unfortunately there is not public bugtracker for these issues anymore.

davidmarsalone · 2015-02-03T07:53:33.021Z

This morning it works fine for me…
It is solved, isn’t it?

Sky · 2015-02-03T11:12:43.583Z

It’s working for me now. Twitter staff, thank you all.

APaternite · 2015-02-03T18:32:02.319Z

It’s working for me again too! Yay.

rchoi · 2015-02-03T18:49:21.395Z

Has been updated and fixed, to the best of our knowledge. Thanks for the confirmation everyone, and your patience!

GermainSouquet · 2015-02-03T22:07:18.883Z

Great, it seems to work well on my end. Many thanks for the quick fix.

andypiper · 2015-02-05T13:12:59.664Z