Hi Andrew, thanks for the reply are you saying after you publish a topic manually it should be able to be used immediately in your case? I was under the impression that the topics would show up in the list of suggested (when microsoft manually discover them) or via the published screen and from there you some how make them "live" for use. In my testing so far i have created 7 topics manually and every now and then when i go to the manage topics page it will sometimes show 7 topics and published (despite not rendering in the list below) or other times it will show 0 published topics and still show nothing in the list below.
If i hash tag one of the topics that i have published a few days ago it just infers the topic doesn't exist and doesn't return in search results like the examples on the internet.