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
