Jonathan, I believe Chad wants just the dollar sign. Searching on just $ will return an error, "you must enter a query." And searching on $AAPL is really searched as "AAPL" as the dollar sign is stripped.
I assume this is easy to enable, though technically challenging (to scale) as it requires an index on a single character. You'll notice searches for '@' and '#' return similar errors as they are not independently indexed either. @dougw (Sent from my mobile device) -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Markwell <j.l.markw...@inuda.com> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:08:31 To: <twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com> Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Include $ as a searchable character It is already: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%24AAPL On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Chad Etzel <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Would it be possible to include $ as a searchable character, much like > # is for hashtags? This would be handy for following stock related > tweets where people conventionally prepend ticker symbols with $ such > as $GOOG or $AAPL. I'm sure the StockTwits devs would dig it also (I > am not affiliated with them). > > -Chad > -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development & support Twitter & Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Providing a nice place to work in the heart of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Helping people make a difference with technology - http://inuda.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/madmotive
