Quotes should be used on all phrases. I.e. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22life+before+death%22+OR+%22palliative+care%22+OR+dying+OR+%22end-of-life+care%22
Jonathan On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:35 AM, taipan541 <taipan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. :) > > I have several keywords that I would like to search on Twitter. The > keywords are "life before death", "palliative care", "dying", "end-of- > life care". I have tried to use the boolean operators to form up the > search query as stated below. > > > http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=life%20before%20death+OR+palliative%20care+OR+dying+OR+end-of-life%20care > (multiple keywords) > > Firstly, did I build the query string correctly? If yes, I only could > retrieve very little results with the query above. If I only include > one keyword, which is "life before death", it would return me more > results. > > http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=life%20before%20death (one > keyword) > > I believed that if I use the boolean operators, It would have return > me much more results which includes the results of "life before > death". Please help me on how should I proceed to retrieve the results > from all keywords. > > Thank You For Your Help :) > Best Regards, > Anis > Year 3 - Student > Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore > >
