Matt: Is it a related issue that a leading or trailing asterisk is invisible to the search API? None of these searches return any results, even though they do appear in a timeline API call or the streaming API: **test test** ** *test test*
Yet the search API can find: test**test On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Matt Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam, > That's correct, a tweet cannot be just a "*" or a "* word". Something like > "**" or "* html {" would be fine though. > Best, > @themattharris > Developer Advocate, Twitter > http://twitter.com/themattharris > > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Adam Green <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So I can assume that * and * word will remain unavailable for normal >> tweeting? >> >> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Matt Harris <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hey Adam, >> > The status update you are sending is part of the SMS command set. >> > http://support.twitter.com/articles/14020-about-twitter-sms-commands >> > It corresponds to the FAV command and is the alias for it. It used to be >> > documented but for some reason isn't there at the moment. I've asked the >> > support team to make sure it is added. >> > Best, >> > @themattharris >> > Developer Advocate, Twitter >> > http://twitter.com/themattharris >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Adam Green <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> There are some very strange behaviors when using the statuses/update >> >> API call to send a tweet with a single asterisk. >> >> >> >> 1. If you send a tweet with just a single asterisk: >> >> * >> >> >> >> The API returns 200 and the response string contains the previous good >> >> tweet in the timeline. No new tweet with an asterisk appears in the >> >> timeline. Repeating this API call results in the same behavior. >> >> >> >> 2. If you send a statuses/update with a single asterisk followed by a >> >> single word: >> >> * test >> >> >> >> The first time you do this, the API returns 200 and the response >> >> string contains the previous good tweet in the timeline. No new tweet >> >> with the string sent to the API appears in the timeline. If you repeat >> >> the same API call, the API returns 500 and the response string has an >> >> HTML page that something strange happened: >> >> <h2>Something is technically wrong.</h2> >> >> <p>Thanks for noticing we're going to fix it up and have things back >> >> to normal soon.</p> >> >> >> >> No other use of the asterisk has a problem that I can find. These bad >> >> tweet strings cause similar problems on Twitter.com. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Twitter developer documentation and resources: >> >> http://dev.twitter.com/doc >> >> API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi >> >> Issues/Enhancements Tracker: >> >> http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list >> >> Change your membership to this group: >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk >> > >> > -- >> > Twitter developer documentation and resources: >> > http://dev.twitter.com/doc >> > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi >> > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: >> > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list >> > Change your membership to this group: >> > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Adam Green >> Twitter API Consultant and Trainer >> http://140dev.com >> @140dev >> >> -- >> Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc >> API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi >> Issues/Enhancements Tracker: >> http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list >> Change your membership to this group: >> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Adam Green Twitter API Consultant and Trainer http://140dev.com @140dev -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
