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Robert Scoble’s accidental tweet (“Frnégtttrdre”) earlier tonite caused a minor ripple: people wondering if he was announcing a secret project, under the influence of alcohol or wandering around with an unlocked iPhone in his back pocket.

It also makes for an interesting test for real-time search.

An hour after his tweet:

Anyone else I’ve missed?

Conclusions: If you tweet a random word, there’s no guarantee that you’ll get indexed right away.  Additionally, not every service tests unicode querystring parameters.

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