Karthik - I'm not sure what you mean by "decorated" - the names do hyperlink to the profile pages. But typically, I think the @ being found is within the tweet content. All of these non-english tweets either have the @ symbol alone, or they contain a mention.
I've looked through a lot of the API docs and online forums, and I saw that Twitter doesn't really have a wildcard search. Is that true? If I want to search posts for mentions or *partial* words, is there any way to do that? For instance, if I want to find mentions that start with @T2*, where * can be anything or nothing...(and I would find, for example, @T2thenike) is there a way to do that? This partial search would be handy for searching hashtags too, so you don't have to nail the hashtag term exactly I guess I'm looking for a "fuzzier" way to search. Any suggestions? On Oct 8, 8:20 am, Karthik Murugan <fermis...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is strange. Did you also notice that for Non-English tweets > returned fromhttp://twitter.com/#search?q=%40, the user names are > decorated with links to their profile pages? > > Well, Twitter doesn't index symbols like @ # $ ^. If you'd like to > gather the tweets containing references to twitter names, you should > use the Streaming API to do so, because Search API doesn't treat @ as > a keyword. > > On Oct 8, 3:18 am, Nick <t2then...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The atsymbol(@) does not seem to work when searching tweets. When > > the @symbolis alone (surrounded by nothing or whitespace) in a > > search, the search returns 0 English results. Sometimes languages > > that use non-ascii characters seem to be found. However, when the @ > > is followed by at least 1 alphanumeric character, the query seems to > > work fine. > > > I found this by searching for "@ the diner downtown", and I was > > getting back 0 results, but at least 1 results should have been > > returned, because that's what I tweeted. This probably affects > > searches for mentions too, because you can't just search for "@". > > > I've used the web site and the search > > API:http://twitter.com/#search?q=%40http://search.twitter.com/search.atom... > > > Has anyone gotten a query to work with @ standing alone? This there a > > different way to perform the same search?
