How to search Twitter for replies to @abc<MY-STRING>def ?

Question

What's the simplest way, if any, to search Twitter for replies to any username that includes <string>?

eg, how to search at the same time for replies to @google, @googletech, @firstgooglers, @nogoogle ?

I'm not a competent developer with any language but I can handle some easy JS or PHP or regex & Bash scripting...snippets welcome.

Answer 1

Have a read through Twitter's search documentation: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search

And then searching for a string, or multiple strings, is easy enough:

http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=@google
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=@google+OR+@googletech

You can also substitute ".json" for ".atom".