Hi Dave, Thank you for your explanation :-) But I still want to know what regex twitter is used to recognize @username , because the regex used to recognize @username in dabr doesn't work exactly same as twitter.com.
On Dec 2, 6:24 pm, Dave Sherohman <d...@fishtwits.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:14:25PM -0800, yegle wrote: > > I have a saved search which is "yegle -...@yegle" to track tweets which > > intends to mention me, I found some tweets with format described below > > can be found using "yegle -...@yegle" but also appear in my > > reply_timeline: > > > Here is sometext and then w...@yegle (no space before the @ ) > > > So my question is, what regex does twitter use to recognize @username > > in tweets? > > You're imagining that this is being handled in a more complex (more > intelligent?) way than it actually is. The search function operates on > complete words only, with no special-case handling for @usernames. > "w...@yegle" doesn't match "@yegle" for the same reason it doesn't match > "it": they're substrings embedded within the word, not the complete > word. > > -- > Dave Sherohman
