[twitter-dev] Re: Search API fails with Chinese

2010-03-22 Thread twitterdoug
This is most likely because there are extremely few results in chinese that match the query. Right now Twitter Search handles lang queries in a relatively inefficient way, so that queries for common terms that match extremely few results may time out. We can (and will) make this better, but the po

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API fails with Chinese

2010-03-22 Thread S Wang
Pretty odd, I am able to use curl to get http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=^_^&lang=zh but have the same problem as you fetching it through Firefox/Safari. On Mar 22, 12:51 pm, Irokez wrote: > http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=^_^&lang=en - works > perfectlyhttp://search.twitter.com