Not to be contrary, but is there a reason for this limit? I could write Yet Another FAQ that nobody will read to try to educate the users about this, but they will ultimately complain that the app is broken.
Of course, this probably is such an outlier case that only a tiny percentage of people will ever need to use a hashtag > 16 chars (why it would even be close to this big is beyond me... using over 11% of your 140 characters just for a hashtag??? unless they're being ironic, but who has ever been ironic on the internet?). -Chad On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Matt Sanford <m...@twitter.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > It looks like the max length of a hashtag in search is 16 characters. > I'll make a not to add it to the documentation. > > Thanks; > — Matt > > On Mar 15, 2009, at 02:19 AM, jeffsonstein wrote: > >> >> same happens for me: #greybitchqueencat returns 0 while >> greybitchqueencat returns many hits >> >> - jeffs - > >
