I'm unable to get search results for a bunch of languages from India using the lang= query parameter. As it turns out, I don't speak any of them so it's possible I'm doing something dumb. But I've tried a variety of phrases from the most excellent Hovercraft<http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm>list, and words I'm sure must match, and have gotten nowhere.
These all work: Chinese http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl&lang=zh Russian http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl&lang=ru Urdu http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl&lang=ur Farsi http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl&lang=fa These all time out: Hindi http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl&lang=hi Bengali http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl&lang=bn Telugu http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl&lang=te Marathi http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl&lang=mr Tamil http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl&lang=ta A search for the word 'alu', or 'potato' in Bengali returns no results: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%81&lang=bn A search for the word 'it' in Hindi<http://translate.google.com/translate_t?q=यह> returns no results: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B9&lang=hi A search for the word 'Hindi' in Hindi<http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&q=हिंदी> returns no results: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80&lang=hi The language codes I'm using are from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes The searches were performed at 3pm Mumbai time / 0900UTC; which is probably max demand for Indian users but I believe is near the global demand minimum. In the words of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, "There are over 700 million of us!" :) Any advice appreciated, flip
