Search does not work

  • Resolved Halgor

    (@halgor)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    I set up a Rotating Tweets widget to try and search for the hashtag #3Pfood. If I enter other hashtags or @users the widget makes a successful search and rotates through a bunch of tweets as expected. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work for the hashtag I need to search for (#3Pfood). Maybe because it begins with 3?

    There are enough tweets with this hashtag that I know there should be results. I used a different plugin before this (it did not rotate, just listed recent tweets) and that plugin was able to find tweets containing the #3Pfood hashtag. My best guess is the ‘3’ in this hashtag is somehow confusing the code.. Or maybe not?

    Any help you can give would be very much appreciated!
    Thanks

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  • I wish I could help, but I’m having the same problem. If I use any user name or any other string or hash tag for search, the tweets are received correctly. But the one string I need to use doesn’t work. It isn’t a character limit issue. I’m getting an error message “No Tweet results for search ” with a link to the search… but that links to Twitter where there ARE tweet results for that string.

    Plugin Author Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    This is an incredibly annoying thing that happens with the Twitter search API – which seems to look at a smaller set of tweets when you call it directly vs. using the Twitter website. According to some people on the internet, the API search doesn’t go back more than a week.

    As an example, I set up a shortcode to use #3Pfood and… nothing – same problem as you – even though a search on the website shows a tweet on June 6.

    And then I tweeted using the #3Pfood and… the plug-in starts working (and I suspect yours will too!).

    All I can suggest if you want to show really old tweets on a timeline and aren’t expecting any more to show up – is that you favorite them – and use the favorites feed. Unfortunately, I can’t reprogramme the Twitter API from this end!

    Thread Starter Halgor

    (@halgor)

    Thanks for your response and explanation! Yes I see your test tweet shows up as the only tweet in the plugin. I don’t suppose a future feature could involve archiving tweets?

    Anyways I was discussing possible solutions with my employer, and one suggestion was that we broaden the search to include multiple users (our employees and partners) and filter those posts with multiple relevant hashtags. Is there a way to write the shortcode to search multiple users and to look for any of several hashtags?

    If that doesn’t work, we will likely only use the twitter feed when events happen, since that’s when we have the most activity. Or we might schedule two or so generic tweets per week, to keep it populated.

    Interested to know your thoughts. Thanks again!

    Plugin Author Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    I like the idea of archiving searched for tweets – although it will be a chunky amount of work! I’ll see if I can think of a way of doing it…

    Multiple users and tweets can be done via searching for things like:

    from:mpntod OR #sldconf OR from:halgor OR @halgor OR #halgorsearch

    More details at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search

    Martin

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