Hi Jeffrey, Thanks for bumping this to our attention. Some of the threads fall off our radar so a prompt is always welcome.
Search treats separate words as an AND search meaning a search for: Don SomeLastName will translate to: Don AND SomeLastName. For a complete phrase search you would instead want to search for: "Don SomeLastName". The problem you are experiencing with "Don" matching "Don't" is, as you suggested, managed by appending "-don't" to the query. You don't need to escape the apostrophe and the quotes are not necessary, making your search query: Don SomeLastName -don't You can read more about the supported advanced search operators on the search site [1]. Hope that helps, Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris 1. http://search.twitter.com/operators On Jun 7, 9:09 am, Jeffrey Greenberg <jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Twitter, > Anyone home? > j > > On Jun 2, 11:28 pm, Jeffrey Greenberg <jeffreygreenb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > We have a user that is causing us to create a search of the form: > > Don SomeLastName > > which is returning tweets containing "don't" and SomeLastName. > > > Thats a no good! > > > Is there a decent workaround for this by modifying the search? e.g. > > Don SomeLastName -don't > > but how do you escape the single quote? Like this? > > Don SomeLastName -"don't"
