[twitter-dev] Re: One letter hashtag for search API
Hi, I guess probably there was a problem for my test account (too few follower or something like that) I've tried to use Stream API, but one letter hashtag that I posted never appeared. Thank you for your information. Nobu
[twitter-dev] Re: One letter hashtag for search API
The issue could be with the posting account, and not with the hashtag, per se. If you are only looking for hashtags programatically, consider using the track parameter on the Streaming API. You will see single character hashtags there, along with a lot of spurious matches like #I'malittleteapot. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 18, 11:36 am, Nobu Funaki nob.fun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm talking about hashtag. I tried to use #A, #B or #C whatever one letter hashtag, sometimes couldn't find them in search result. But sometimes I could. Could you tell me if there is any certain rules? Perhaps it is involved this rule. - Misuse of hashtags (words followed by the '#' sign)http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/42646 I'm not sure, but two letters works well. The document just says that hashtag should be up to 16 characters.http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search Thank you, Nobu
[twitter-dev] Re: One letter hashtag for search API
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Nobu Funaki nob.fun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm talking about hashtag. I tried to use #A, #B or #C whatever one letter hashtag, sometimes couldn't find them in search result. But sometimes I could. Could you tell me if there is any certain rules? Perhaps it is involved this rule. I don't know if it's true of Twitter's search, but many search engines treat single-letter words as stop words - they don't index them. Many don't index two-letter words, either, but apparently Twitter is. Having said all that, I will add that many search engines have become less aggressive about stop words as computing resources have become less of a constraint than they used to be. Nick
