2009/4/19 ParsePlz <parseplz.a...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > Thanks for your replies. > > I tried with following url formats separately, all are properly url > encoded. > > 1. Plain URL > 2. TinyURL > 3. Bitly UR > > But those 3 behaves differently for same URL. For URL A TinyURL has > results, For B Bitly has results, Plain URL also have some results. > > Finally I passed all three combined using OR operator... That gave me > total results little in little bit high volume.. > > Still even that composit search produces very less than on-site URL > for the same result.. > > That s the issue..
Tinyurl and bit.ly are not the only URL shorteners. There are soo many to list them all. I don't understand why you can't use the Tweetmeme API [http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/07/api-documentation/] which will give you an accurate count for any non-redirecting URL. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/projects/twitter/ > On Apr 19, 1:29 am, Stuart <stut...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2009/4/18 ParsePlz <parseplz.a...@gmail.com>: >> >> >> >> > Actually what I meant, >> >> > Say I did a search on URL at backtweets.com and gave me 256 results. >> >> > But when I search the same url via their API using a program it gives >> > 26 results ... >> >> > That is why I am being confused on that.. >> >> > Am I not in correct track or their API gives lesser output than their >> > own onsite search ... >> >> Backtweets.com resolve redirecting URLs (tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc) so >> that when you search it you're searching final URLs. The search API is >> searching the content of tweets and does not resolve the URLs. That's >> why they're different. >> >> -Stuart >> >> --http://stut.net/projects/twitter/ >
