This is a problem when filtering by geo as well - searching for tweets "near:vancouver" also returns retweets of users in vancouver by users in other locations.
On Jan 22, 10:18 am, "Ryan G." <ryan.gar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > As @Sarah Richards reported earlier, we are being impacted across many > of our web properties by a change in behavior in the Search API. > > Previously use of the FROM filter in the search API would only pull > tweets that came directly from the user specified. > > Now the same search parameters result in both tweets from the user > specified as well as retweets of the user from other accounts. > > Any updates on why this is happening? > > Ex:http://search.twitter.com/search?from=yelyahwilliams