I'm trying to understand why this query doesn't return a tweet :
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23tea%20from:jamesb%20from:frankieroberto%20from:andrewpendrick%20from:monkeyhelpr%20from:topfife
But this one does :
When I run your queries above I see, in both cases, the Tweet from
monkeyhelpr. When you ran the queries it may have been the Tweet was
new and the caching on search.twitter.com hadn't fully updated.
If you need real-time results you may want to consider using the
Streaming API. The query you are