Taylor, help would be appreciated. On Jan 22, 12:27 am, Niv <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Taylor, > > When using Twitter search, the following query returns statuses with > the words "ATT" and "Verizon", including statuses with > "AT&T".http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=att+verizon > > This is the expected behavior as understood from the documentation - > exact-matched ignoringpunctuation. Doesn't that mean punctuations are > removed from the terms and then exact-matched, meaning "AT&T" would > become "ATT" and then matched, or are you replacingpunctuationwith a > whitespace, so it becomes "AT T"? > Anyway, this is not the case with the Streaming API - tracking "att" > does not return statuses with "AT&T" (wheres twitter search does). > > Using track for at,t will return all statuses with "at" or "t" in > them, not as intended. > > Thanks, > Niv > > On Jan 20, 7:49 pm, Taylor Singletary <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Niv, > > > I don't believe this behavior has changed recently. > > > With the Search and Streaming APIs, the following should be true: > > - "AT&T" should match "AT&T" - track=at%26t > > - "AT" and "T" should match "AT&T" - track=at,t > > - "ATT" should/will not match "AT&T" - track=att > > > Were you seeing different behavior than this recently? > > > Taylor > > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Niv <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > Until recently, searching using the Search API and the Streaming track > > > filter matched terms ignoringpunctuation. > > > > Searching for "att" used to match statuses containing "AT&T", "at t", > > > "at.t", etc. Currently, searching for "AT&T Server" or "att server" > > > return different results - specifically, searching for "att server" > > > does not return results containing the terms "AT&T server". > > > > From the Streaming API documentation: > > > > Terms are exact-matched, and also exact-matched ignoringpunctuation. ... > > > Keywords containingpunctuationwill only exact match tokens and, other than > > > keywords prefixed by # and @, will tend to never match. > > > > Thanks, > > > > −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−− > > > Niv Singer, CTO ≈ > > > Tracx »http://tra.cx > > > Twitter » @nivs > > > ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ > > > > -- > > > 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
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