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Reputation: 11

twitter search OR operator ignored?

I may be missing something completely obvious, but if I try a twitter search for "bear" "paddington" OR "station" "paddington", like so:

https://twitter.com/search?q=bear%20paddington%20OR%20station%20paddington&src=typd

I only get results for Paddington bear.

Strangely enough, if I switch the terms in each clause:

https://twitter.com/search?q=paddington%20bear%20OR%20paddington%20station&src=typd

I only get results for Paddington station (?!).

I'm seeing the same when submitting these queries using the REST API.

What I'm looking for is tweets with (paddington AND bear) OR (paddington AND station)

Is this even possible?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 103

Answers (1)

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ade

Reputation: 36

Your search term is essentially searching for bear AND (paddington OR station) AND paddington so you will get the results you are seeing.

What you are trying to search for is paddington AND (bear OR station) so https://twitter.com/search?q=paddington%20bear%20OR%20station&src=typd should achieve that

Upvotes: 1

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