I'll let Matt jump in on the feasibility of these features, since he's our Search API guru, but I'd like to see both of these as well.
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Ed Finkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
