Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Doing a search with from:username_with_underscore doesnt seem to work

2009-12-19 Thread Raffi Krikorian
not all tweets are guaranteed to be in the search index -
http://help.twitter.com/forums/31935/entries/66018

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM, dbasch dba...@gmail.com wrote:

 It's not the underscore. These queries work:

 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Ajamie_oliver
 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adavid_henrie

 This particular one doesn't:

 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Athe_hindu

 to:the_hindu does work. Just speculating, but perhaps the_hindu's
 results were dropped from the index by a spam filter for some reason.
 Maybe it tweeted too many times in a very short period.

 Diego

 On Dec 18, 12:23 pm, Joe cend...@gmail.com wrote:
  I am trying to search for all messages from a particular for eg
  from:the_hindu
  It doesnt work. How is this supposed to be done?




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[twitter-dev] Re: Doing a search with from:username_with_underscore doesnt seem to work

2009-12-18 Thread dbasch
It's not the underscore. These queries work:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Ajamie_oliver
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adavid_henrie

This particular one doesn't:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Athe_hindu

to:the_hindu does work. Just speculating, but perhaps the_hindu's
results were dropped from the index by a spam filter for some reason.
Maybe it tweeted too many times in a very short period.

Diego

On Dec 18, 12:23 pm, Joe cend...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am trying to search for all messages from a particular for eg
 from:the_hindu
 It doesnt work. How is this supposed to be done?