That’s right… after listening to what’s going on, and watching what is and isn’t being replied to, the lifespan of an unconfirmed tweet has been reduced even further from 7 days right back to 24 hours.

Before you complain that you might miss a lead, the massive upsides to this is that it allows an increase to the rate at which TwitterHawk searches for you. Previously the most frequently you could search was once every 6 hours, this has been improved to once every 2 hours, per search.

Added to this, with the early culling of old leads, the limit on how many matches you can have in your queue has been increased from 11 to… wait for it… unlimited. This means that (unless you are searching for a term that is extremely popular) you can potentially never miss a lead on twitter.

In order to take advantage of the mroe frequent searching, all you need to do is modify your given searches frequency setting.

As a side note, you may receive some old matches in your first search run from this point forward, but all following searches will result in only the latest results.

Please take note though, that this update is to allow you to have a wider view and pick the right tweets to reply to, and shouldn’t be abused by replying to all tweets. Just remeber, you still have to pay a credit for that reply, abusing the system will not only cost you credits, but potentially your account usage should you be reported for misuse.

Tagged: queue, search