You may need to do some post-processing on your end to get exactly what you want. You could search for t, then discard all tweets that don't contain $t.
But, it sounds like you are doing a repetitive automated search. You should be using the Streaming API for this. Try using track for $t, it might work. If not, track for t, then post-process. If you use search, you will miss some tweets, due to relevance filtering. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Zhami <stu...@yellowhelium.com> wrote: > I need to search Twitter for tweets containing the phrase "$T" (T > being the trading symbol for AT&T). When I perform a search for this, > I get back oodles of results where "$t" is not a complete phrase, but > the characters in some larger phrase, which isn't what I want. Alas, > $t is quite common in 1337 (leet) phraseology. > > The Web interface for search.twitter.com "advanced" offers an entry > for "This exact phrase" but I can't get that to work. I have tried > specifying spaces on either side of the $t text, as in: > http://search.twitter.com/search?phrase=%20%24t%20 > But the search engine ignores the spaces and returns non-"exact" > phrase matches. > > Is there any way to inform the search engine that I want exact-exact > matches, or whole-word matches? >
