[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: searching for "Don" and finding "don't" instead

2010-06-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Thanks Matt, Unless they've been updated lately, the docs are not clear as to how to handle contractions, so thanks for the -don't example. Given that "don't" is regarded as a "word", we believe that search should _not_ return "don't" in a search for "don"... It's a bug in our opinion. Further,

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: searching for "Don" and finding "don't" instead

2010-06-07 Thread themattharris
Hi Jeffrey, Thanks for bumping this to our attention. Some of the threads fall off our radar so a prompt is always welcome. Search treats separate words as an AND search meaning a search for: Don SomeLastName will translate to: Don AND SomeLastName. For a complete phrase search you would ins

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API: searching for "Don" and finding "don't" instead

2010-06-07 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
Hello Twitter, Anyone home? j On Jun 2, 11:28 pm, Jeffrey Greenberg wrote: > We have a user that is causing us to create a search of the form: >    Don SomeLastName > which is returning tweets containing "don't" and SomeLastName. > > Thats a no good! > > Is there a decent workaround for this by m