Sorry I must have been unclear. I don't want the $ by itself, I want it to be a searchable character in conjunction with other strings, so I want to search for "$AAPL" or "$C" much like # is with hashtags.
I can understand not being able to search for @ or # or $ by themselves as that would be an unreasonably large index and/or inefficient search process. $AAPL and AAPL should return different results... right now they do not. -Chad On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Jonathan, > I believe Chad wants just the dollar sign. > > Searching on just $ will return an error, "you must enter a query." And > searching on $AAPL is really searched as "AAPL" as the dollar sign is > stripped. > > I assume this is easy to enable, though technically challenging (to scale) as > it requires an index on a single character. You'll notice searches for '@' > and '#' return similar errors as they are not independently indexed either. > > @dougw > > > (Sent from my mobile device) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Markwell <[email protected]> > > Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:08:31 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Include $ as a searchable character > > > > It is already: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%24AAPL > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Would it be possible to include $ as a searchable character, much like >> # is for hashtags? This would be handy for following stock related >> tweets where people conventionally prepend ticker symbols with $ such >> as $GOOG or $AAPL. I'm sure the StockTwits devs would dig it also (I >> am not affiliated with them). >> >> -Chad >> > > > > -- > Jonathan Markwell > Engineer | Founder | Connector > > Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK > > Web application development & support > Twitter & Facebook integration specialists > http://inuda.com > > Providing a nice place to work in the heart of Brighton - http://theskiff.org > > Helping people make a difference with technology - http://inuda.org > > Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com > > mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 > skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/madmotive >
