I did some digging into your problem and came up with the cause. Twitter’s documentation weren’t that clear as you can read here.
http://support.twitter.com/groups/32-something-s-not-working/topics/118-search/articles/66018-my-tweets-or-hashtags-are-missing-from-search-known-issue# However the problem appears to be more simple than complicated despite a very complicated understanding of why its that way.
Here’s two threads that has the same problem as you.
https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/4094
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5796263/no-results-for-a-specific-user-in-twitter-search-api
Their explanation is somewhat unclear but the guise of it is basically, you haven’t been tweeting often enough and so in order to keep a high quality service, twitter apparently filter out or flag accounts so they don’t appear in search. Perhaps to relieve server load, that part is unclear. It’s even more confusing when Twitter says they don’t index every tweets.
The solution:
If you post a tweet now, and wait awhile. It seems twitter will flag your a/c to be indexed by the search api some few mins later and you will see your tweets appear in the search now. Which you can then feed to ja social feed plugin. Unfortunately, after “some” period of not tweeting, your a/c will get flagged again and removed from search results. How often do you need to tweet in order to keep your feeds in the search all the time, there’s no mention of it anywhere. But my guess is, few times a day.
Alternatively, you can contact twitter support and have them flag your a/c to be in the search api at all times. They may or may not entertain that request though, but they did say you can try.
As for your problem 2. Maybe you misunderstood the purpose of Import limit in the plugin. Allow me to apologies if I’m the one who misunderstood you. But from what I gather, you saw another Ja Wall site loading 30 articles on their homepage and you’re trying to do the same. I believe what you want to do should be
1) Go into Menu Manager
2) Find twitter or whichever name you create as the menu item, click on it.
3) Under Blog Layout Options, set the intro articles to 30. The default option that came with the template is 0,20,0,0.
Setting that to 30 would now cause the page to load 30 articles when clicked on before attempting to load another 30 in order to fill the screen. You can set that to 50 if you like, but I’m not sure if your screen can fit 50 pictures, unless they are really small. The advice from one developer was not to go over 25 in one of the topics, but seems going over doesn’t affect anything. You might want to count in the load time for a slow user though, he would now be required to load 50 pictures all at the same time.
The above steps is if you’re using putting the feeds into a Joomla category. If you’re using K2, it’s a different step. Though I don’t see how one can put those feeds into K2 with the plugin… so it’s most likely Joomla.
So what does Import Limit does?
Import limit is basically well. Before we get there. Do you remember seeing this Cron Interval setting in the plugin? Well the feed don’t comes into joomla in real time. So you set a time for the plugin to automatically pull the feed results again and download new feeds. The automated job within a set time limit is called a cron aka scheduled task.
The Import limit affects how many new feeds is downloaded and saved into Joomla every time the cron runs. So changing that to 30 but without having 30 new articles is basically just doing nothing. The existing feeds have already been downloaded and saved into Joomla so there’s nothing for it to do.
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I hope this post solves your twitter feed problem. I admit that twitter quality of service thing is very ridiculous though, have to wonder why ppl even accept that reasoning and let it be. They should be damned for alienating accounts for just not being active enough.
MoonSailor 12 years, 2 months ago.
