Twitter, Search Filtering, & Possible Malware Censorship?
Earlier today I discovered quite a few poisoned links in a user profile @twitter- 16 URLs to be exact, and every one of them included “Trojan-Downloader.JS.Iframe.atl.” So I hash-tagged my discovery to #spam and #malware. Then I performed a twitter search under #malware to make sure that the information about this serious exploit in this particular twitter profile would be acknowledged by twitter.
No tweets from @teksquisite were included in the initial twitter search that i performed, nor under the hash tag of #malware, or #spam. It was at this point in the time-line that I noted something was quite amiss! It was very odd that there was no teksquisite posts under #malware search (which happens to be my # of expertise.)
So what do you do if you become twitter-search-banned for posting information about twitter malware links or you have posted duplicate links (due to tweetdeck choking?) Try to find the support link over at twitter help – it is not very intuitive but I was finally able to post a request.
Currently waiting for an answer…
Update July 7, 2009 6:55 pm
I finally got back in the twitter time-line. Long story and not enough time here to write it all out. Suffice it to say that it took a lot of work to figure it out.
Update February 28, 2010
Open up a Twitter Support Ticket here: http://twitter.zendesk.com/requests/new
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