Re: [twitter-dev] API fails when tweeting with single asterisk

2011-01-07 Thread Matt Harris
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 e

Re: [twitter-dev] API fails when tweeting with single asterisk

2011-01-07 Thread Adam Green
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 4,

Re: [twitter-dev] API fails when tweeting with single asterisk

2011-01-04 Thread Matt Harris
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

Re: [twitter-dev] API fails when tweeting with single asterisk

2011-01-04 Thread Adam Green
So I can assume that * and * word will remain unavailable for normal tweeting? On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Matt Harris wrote: > 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 corresp

Re: [twitter-dev] API fails when tweeting with single asterisk

2011-01-04 Thread Matt Harris
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 su