Well this is certainly strange. Twitter verified is supposed to only follow accounts that are verified. However, it is following this account but the account isn't verified by Twitter. First time I've seen something like that.
This account gets returned with "filter:verified"...
Conversation
...but the user.verified boolean is set to false.
This is the account: twitter.com/tolvtv
There are apparently others like that account where filter:verified returns their tweets but their user object show they are not verified.
Replying to
In the past you would use your verified status by setting the account to private. I assume that didn't lead to being unfollowed. Twitter can remove the status for other reasons as well.
I don't know how search exactly works, but it's insanely optimized.
1
When I asked why old Tweets of an account didn't show up in search, I was told that a reason could be that it was private at the time those Tweets were published. I wasn't able to reproduce that behaviour. But image there could be outdated indexes. Would explain this as well.
1
1
Show replies
Replying to
law of big data.. if there's enough data - unless its structurally prevented at the storage layer - every conceivable data inconsistency will eventually happen at least once..
2
Replying to
my guess is that the account lost its verified status. this can happen for a variety of reasons such as if the account chooses to change their handle.