Currently there is no way to do wildcard/substring/fuzzy searching.
Only exact tokens are searchable. I agree this is somewhat limiting,
but otherwise the searching/indexing performance would suffer
horribly.
-Chad
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Nick wrote:
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> Karthik - I'm not sure what you
Karthik - I'm not sure what you mean by "decorated" - the names do
hyperlink to the profile pages. But typically, I think the @ being
found is within the tweet content. All of these non-english tweets
either have the @ symbol alone, or they contain a mention.
I've looked through a lot of the AP
This is strange. Did you also notice that for Non-English tweets
returned from http://twitter.com/#search?q=%40, the user names are
decorated with links to their profile pages?
Well, Twitter doesn't index symbols like @ # $ ^. If you'd like to
gather the tweets containing references to twitter na
