Hi Tia, The Search API is case insensitive so the query will be applied in the same way.
Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:11 PM, ds2k <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using the search API in Ruby to grab all mentions of a given user: > > Twitter::Search.new.to(account.screen_name).per_page(100) > > If his screen name is Foo (capital 'F'), but people post status > mentions to him as: > > "@foo this is my tweet" > > Will this affect the number of results I get back from the API? > > Twitter::Search.new.to(account.screen_name).per_page(100) > and > Twitter::Search.new.to(account.screen_name.downcase).per_page(100) > > give me identical results from the client-side, but not sure if > something else may be going on at the server-side. > > tia > > -- > 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
