If you need to search specific users why don't you use the Shadow API and grab all of their tweets and then search them locally?
On Sep 28, 3:14 pm, Chad Etzel <c...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hello, > > The limit is indeed 140 and most likely won't be going up any time > soon. The reason for the limit is for performance reasons. In order to > do timely queries we don't allow for longer/arbitrary queries which > could be very complex. > > -Chad > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:08 PM, zapnap <npla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > (this could be overcome, I suppose, by performing multiple queries, > > but that isn't much of a solution if you want to use the stock twitter > > js search widget, etc) > > > On Sep 27, 11:37 am, zapnap <npla...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Search API queries appear to be limited to 140 characters. I mean, > >> that's cute and all, but it's also rather limiting. In my particular > >> case I was hoping to construct a search for a particular term from a > >> group of N Twitter users only (instead of searching everyone). > > >> Is there another way to achieve this? Are there any plans to allow > >> longer / more complex search queries? > > >> Thanks! > > >> ..nap
