how to search for retweets based on hashtag in php?

Question

Also, how can i retrieve the results of the s hashtag search and see who all have retweeted that tweet in php. I have seen the api but did not find much info on hashtag search. did find other normal search but i wanted to search based on hashtag.

Suggestions please

Answer 1

Just include the hash when searching for the tag, i.e, #tagname

Make sure you also urlencode the search term, otherwise the # will be intepreted as an anchor and not part of the querystring. Example code:

<?php
$tag = '#apple';
$url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=' . urlencode($tag);
echo $url;
?>

This will output:

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23apple