Search UI and API suggestions
As a user, there are a couple of things I'd like to see in search (both the Advanced UI form and in the API): 1) The ability to search for replies to a given tweet ID. The use case for this is when someone asks a question like What's the best place to get T-shirts printed in small runs?. The only way to search for answers is by using the original poster's screen_name, which contains a lot of noise in the results. Specifying the original tweet's ID would be much more accurate (now that clients like Twitterrific are starting to set it when replies are posted.) 2) I'd like to do a search for @chockenberry that are not replies to me. Periodically, I do searches to see what people are saying about me. I'm not in interested in @chockenberry This a reply, I'm interested in Just saw @chockenberry and man is he tall. A vanity mode :-) Of course, both of these things could lead to some interesting features and applications, too. Thanks, as always, for listening. -ch
Re: Search UI and API suggestions
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Craig Hockenberry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a user, there are a couple of things I'd like to see in search (both the Advanced UI form and in the API): 1) The ability to search for replies to a given tweet ID. The use case for this is when someone asks a question like What's the best place to get T-shirts printed in small runs?. The only way to search for answers is by using the original poster's screen_name, which contains a lot of noise in the results. Specifying the original tweet's ID would be much more accurate (now that clients like Twitterrific are starting to set it when replies are posted.) +1 2) I'd like to do a search for @chockenberry that are not replies to me. Periodically, I do searches to see what people are saying about me. I'm not in interested in @chockenberry This a reply, I'm interested in Just saw @chockenberry and man is he tall. A vanity mode :-) I guess you could kinda get these now, but you'd have to do client-side filtering to dump the stuff you don't want. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 Skype: funka7ron
Re: Search UI and API suggestions
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Craig Hockenberry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) The ability to search for replies to a given tweet ID. The use case for this is when someone asks a question like What's the best place to get T-shirts printed in small runs?. The only way to search for answers is by using the original poster's screen_name, which contains a lot of noise in the results. Specifying the original tweet's ID would be much more accurate (now that clients like Twitterrific are starting to set it when replies are posted.) +1 2) I'd like to do a search for @chockenberry that are not replies to me. Periodically, I do searches to see what people are saying about me. I'm not in interested in @chockenberry This a reply, I'm interested in Just saw @chockenberry and man is he tall. A vanity mode :-) Yeah, that'd be nice. What's weird is that this works: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+chockenberry+-from%3Achockenberry but this doesn't http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+chockenberry+-to%3Achockenberry could just be a bug. -damon
Re: Search UI and API suggestions
-to: not working is indeed a bug. I'm working on a fix right now. As for the searching for replies, that seems like a good feature to add. Until recently the reply_to_id was wrong too often, but with some recent API additions that should no longer be the case. Please file an issue at http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues and I'll see if we can get it into a future release. Thanks; — Matt Sanford On Nov 6, 10:55 am, Damon Clinkscales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Craig Hockenberry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) The ability to search for replies to a given tweet ID. The use case for this is when someone asks a question like What's the best place to get T-shirts printed in small runs?. The only way to search for answers is by using the original poster's screen_name, which contains a lot of noise in the results. Specifying the original tweet's ID would be much more accurate (now that clients like Twitterrific are starting to set it when replies are posted.) +1 2) I'd like to do a search for @chockenberry that are not replies to me. Periodically, I do searches to see what people are saying about me. I'm not in interested in @chockenberry This a reply, I'm interested in Just saw @chockenberry and man is he tall. A vanity mode :-) Yeah, that'd be nice. What's weird is that this works: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+chockenberry+-from%3Achockenberry but this doesn't http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+chockenberry+-to%3Achockenberry could just be a bug. -damon
Re: Search UI and API suggestions
Done, and thanks! http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 -ch On Nov 6, 1:20 pm, Matt Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -to: not working is indeed a bug. I'm working on a fix right now. As for the searching for replies, that seems like a good feature to add. Until recently the reply_to_id was wrong too often, but with some recent API additions that should no longer be the case. Please file an issue athttp://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issuesand I'll see if we can get it into a future release. Thanks; — Matt Sanford On Nov 6, 10:55 am, Damon Clinkscales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Craig Hockenberry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) The ability to search for replies to a given tweet ID. The use case for this is when someone asks a question like What's the best place to get T-shirts printed in small runs?. The only way to search for answers is by using the original poster's screen_name, which contains a lot of noise in the results. Specifying the original tweet's ID would be much more accurate (now that clients like Twitterrific are starting to set it when replies are posted.) +1 2) I'd like to do a search for @chockenberry that are not replies to me. Periodically, I do searches to see what people are saying about me. I'm not in interested in @chockenberry This a reply, I'm interested in Just saw @chockenberry and man is he tall. A vanity mode :-) Yeah, that'd be nice. What's weird is that this works: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+chockenberry+-from%3Achockenberry but this doesn't http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+chockenberry+-to%3Achockenberry could just be a bug. -damon
