In an attempt to keep your matches flowing and more relevant to what’s going on now, tweets that have been found and placed in your match list (for searches that are set to ‘confirm first’) will now have a maximum lifespan of 7 days, any matches that are unconfirmed and older than 7 days old will be removed from the system on a daily basis.
As your match list will only hold around 10 tweets maximum at any one time, if your match list is full, any new matches found will be ignored. Therefor it makes sense to cull the oldest tweets, and replace them with more recent tweets for you to respond to.
The effects of this are:
- Outdated tweets are removed
- More recent tweets in your matches list
- Higher rotation of tweets to reply to
- Lower load on system
NB As this is a change to the system, and will result in the removal of existing matches, the change will not occur for at least 48 hours from the writing of this post. This change only effects searches that are set to ‘confirm first’.
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