I'm trying to search the API for a specific URL (non-shortened) but am getting different results on how many times the URL has been tweeted. The URL I'm using for this example is http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk Shows a count of 42 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk doesn't give me any results http://www.backtype.com/page/groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/conversations shows 151 tweets It looks like backtype does a better job of the shortened links, but from my testing the twitter api will find the results from the shortened URL's *sometimes*. I've also found that backtype can return more results than the twitter api. For example: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=http://37signals.com/rework/ gives me about 30 tweets going back about a week. http://www.backtype.com/page/37signals.com/rework/conversations gives me 3,836 tweets going back much further. So I guess I'm asking if it's possible that backtype is providing a much better search than twitter, or I'm doing something wrong. It seems like backtype is somehow grabbing every tweet - is that even possible? It just doesn't seem right that they can be offering a better search results of twitters data than twitter can (they also seem to do a better job on shortened URL's than Google which returns the same results as twitter). -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
