Hey John,
You need to URL encode (percent encode) the :) for this to work.
If you are unsure how to form the search query I find using
http://search.twitter.com/search first helps. When I do that and press
search the correct encoding is displayed in the URL address bar.
For example, visit http://
I'm trying to do some searches via the API and I have it working for
straight strings but when I try the emoticon syntax described here
(http://search.twitter.com/operators) for attitude I get this back
from the API:
code":17,"message":"No user matches for specified terms"
e.g. "Twitter :)" return
