Because search was originally a separate company that Twitter acquired. And they didn't provide XML.
There a plan to fix this: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap#MergingRESTandSearchAPIs On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:03, Carlos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, bu looking at the search API docs I see the output format is JSON > and Atom, why not X-ML? Forgive me I haven´t tried myself to request > xml to see what I get, but hopefully the docs are obsoletea and XML is > supported.... best regards, Carlos > -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
