If you aren't trying to do this in realtime you can get around this by doing a broad search and storing the results in a MySQL database. You could then play with the data and apply some more advanced filters to it.
On May 1, 12:03 pm, hill79 <hil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Insanely quick replies - thanks :) > > On May 1, 4:58 pm, Matt Sanford <m...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > Nope, sorry to say we do not support wild cards. We've discussed > > it in the past internally but there is no good way to make it work > > fast enough to be useful based on our current system. > > > Thanks; > > – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford > > Twitter Dev > > > On May 1, 2009, at 8:55 AM, hill79 wrote: > > > > Is there a wildcard for search terms through the API? The 140char > > > limit on the URL is playing havoc with something I'm trying to do and > > > being able to shorten my search query using wildcards would help > > > massively! > > > > I've searched the group and can't find an answer to this - although I > > > suspect the lack of information gives me the answer I need...
