Thanks, good feedback. Yep, it is always preferable to be explicit about specifying the intent. API versioning and explicit options are both good ways of doing that. The kerfuffle around the popular searches being injected happened exactly because there was previously no way to specify intent. Thus, there was an implicit intent in the search API behavior that the developers came to trust. Now we feel as if a rug is somewhat being pulled from under us.
To be fair, though, if popular tweets being included by default BREAKS anybody's app in the technical sense, then maybe it's time to look in the mirror or your code. My app won't be affected by it and will continue to operate just fine. If I want, I could just add extra value to my users by presenting the popular search somehow differently, but if not, it continues to be just a bunch of results, all the same. "Be liberal in what you accept" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Robustness_principle) is a good rule to follow with Twitter API as with any external data. J -- To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
