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
