On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:37:51AM -0800, yegle wrote: > But I still want to know what regex twitter is used to recognize > @username , > because the regex used to recognize @username in dabr doesn't work > exactly same as twitter.com.
You mean the list that appears when you click the @yegle link on your twitter.com homepage? I'm pretty sure that's not a regex at all. Try the statuses/mentions API method (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-mentions) to retrieve that list. If you're implementing your own search through a local database of tweets, my first thought to emulate this would be to check the tweets' in_reply_to_user_id properties. -- Dave Sherohman
