flip, Matt Sanford has a great answer for this already posted: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/565313d7b36e8d65
@dougw On Jan 20, 4:46 am, "Philip (flip) Kromer" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: > Chinesehttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl〈=zh > Russianhttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl〈=ru > Urduhttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl〈=ur > Farsihttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl〈=fa > > These all time out: > Hindihttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl〈=hi > > Bengalihttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl〈=bn Teluguhttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl〈=te > Marathihttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl〈=mr > Tamilhttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tinyurl〈=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&l... > > 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〈=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%E... > > 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
