There are no known issues with search and running your query works for me.
Hey Ben,
The Search API does not use authentication and is rate limited
differently to the 150 IP requests allowed on the REST API.
If you are rate limited on the Search API we would return an error
telling you rather than not reply.
If the atom link is still not responding can you try
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=test and let us know the
result?
Thanks,
Matt
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Ben wrote:
> Hey guys -
>
> I'm curious as to know whether there's any problems with the search
> API?
>
> I'm curling from a PHP script, and it keeps timing out with 'couldn't
> connect to host' errors when my URL is a search (eg:
> http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=test). Interestingly, if I
> curl either of the following:
>
> http://api.twitter.com/1/help/test.xml
> http://api.twitter.com/1/account/rate_limit_status.xml
>
> ...and it doesn't time out, I get a true, and my rate limit is
> 150/150. I'm not using any authentication, this is a straight request
> from a script.
>
> Could I be on an IP blacklist for search (can I check this?)? I've
> been pretty careful with my caching, I make nowhere near 150 requests
> an hour, although my site is on a shared server, so it's entirely
> plausible someone else has been hammering it. Although if that was the
> case, would something not show up on the odd times I actually get the
> rate limit to show something?
>
> If anyone can help, or point me in the direction of something I've
> missed, I'd be eternally grateful...
>
>
> ben
>
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