Matt:
Is it a related issue that a leading or trailing asterisk is invisible
to the search API? None of these searches return any results, even
though they do appear in a timeline API call or the streaming API:
**test
test**
**
*test
test*
Yet the search API can find:
test**test
On Tue, Jan
Hey Adam,
There are many reasons why Tweets may not show in Search but exist
elsewhere. We have a support article which goes into this in more detail:
http://support.twitter.com/articles/66018
To answer your question though it is likely the problem you are hitting is
that * is ignored when
There are some very strange behaviors when using the statuses/update
API call to send a tweet with a single asterisk.
1. If you send a tweet with just a single asterisk:
*
The API returns 200 and the response string contains the previous good
tweet in the timeline. No new tweet with an asterisk
Hey Adam,
The status update you are sending is part of the SMS command set.
http://support.twitter.com/articles/14020-about-twitter-sms-commands
It corresponds to the FAV command and is the alias for it. It used to be
documented but for some reason isn't there at the moment. I've asked the
So I can assume that * and * word will remain unavailable for normal tweeting?
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote:
Hey Adam,
The status update you are sending is part of the SMS command set.
Hi Adam,
That's correct, a tweet cannot be just a * or a * word. Something like
** or * html { would be fine though.
Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Adam Green 140...@gmail.com wrote:
So I can assume that * and
