[Noisebridge-discuss] DEAD AIR

[John Adams]

Honestly, our search just sucks.

There is lots of bitching (internally) about fixing search and we just
haven't done it.  Messages drop off after a day or so because the search
system is separate from the main tweet storage db. That's why you see posts
disappear after 24 hours or so.

Instead of:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/from%3Arabite

Go to

https://twitter.com/rabite

... and all the messages are there.

Big brother is not here and not censoring. Chill.

-j


On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:31 PM, John Morgan <dr1ce315 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I certainly can't say for sure that twitter was censoring, and it
> certainly could have been a bug.  One of the biggest things i've personally
> noticed with twitter is I would see a bunch of retweets come through, and
> then they would disappear the next day.  Only a few cases of tweets not
> coming out at all.  The problem is not with twitter or their hard working
> staff; it's with big brother that is going to come in and do whatever they
> feel like with the cloud, including censoring twitter.  The necessity for
> decentralized text messages is crucial if not today, in the near future..
>
>
> Good thing I live in a Faraday cage, that tin foil hat sure gets
> annoying...
>
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:10 PM, John Adams <jna at retina.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Ryan Rawson <ryanobjc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  However, this situation may be actually the case. The patriot act
>>>> gives the US Government wide ranging powers. One of the major powers
>>>> is the NSL and accompanying gag order.  Why a subpoena was used in the
>>>> case you are describing is not clear, but almost certainly NSLs have
>>>> been delivered to twitter and they have executed on it.  What else is
>>>> in the bag of tricks?  Remember, the NSL gag orders threads are
>>>> personal.  That means if the sysadmin who is requested to pull data
>>>> blabs, then the federal government will put that person in jail.  Your
>>>> legal department wont be able to do anything about it.
>>>
>>>
>>> I understand how NSLs work. I (may have) had to respond to some of them
>>> (at some company) but I wouldn't be able to tell you if I (did or did not.)
>>>
>>> Warrants are used for account contacts and Subpoenas for information to
>>> identify user accounts. The PATRIOT act allows for these requests but to
>>> order a company to censor?
>>>
>>> I have never seen one with that sort of a request before, ever.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, I'd be very interested to hear about that. NSLs are used to obtain
>> data, not block stuff.
>>
>> <http://weev.livejournal.com/401774.html>Still, the fact that
>> https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/from%3Arabite returns nothing
>> *is* kind of weird -- an indicator of a bug, if nothing else.
>>
>> I don't pretend to understand how the current terms of Weev's bail might
>> intersect with all of this.
>>
>> d.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> -j
>>>
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