This is strange. Did you also notice that for Non-English tweets returned from http://twitter.com/#search?q=%40, the user names are decorated with links to their profile pages?
Well, Twitter doesn't index symbols like @ # $ ^. If you'd like to gather the tweets containing references to twitter names, you should use the Streaming API to do so, because Search API doesn't treat @ as a keyword. On Oct 8, 3:18 am, Nick <t2then...@gmail.com> wrote: > The at symbol (@) does not seem to work when searching tweets. When > the @ symbol is alone (surrounded by nothing or whitespace) in a > search, the search returns 0 English results. Sometimes languages > that use non-ascii characters seem to be found. However, when the @ > is followed by at least 1 alphanumeric character, the query seems to > work fine. > > I found this by searching for "@ the diner downtown", and I was > getting back 0 results, but at least 1 results should have been > returned, because that's what I tweeted. This probably affects > searches for mentions too, because you can't just search for "@". > > I've used the web site and the search > API:http://twitter.com/#search?q=%40http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40 > > Has anyone gotten a query to work with @ standing alone? This there a > different way to perform the same search?
