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What's the evidence? Post a link to a tweet that proves that this is happening.

Why not just tweet using your number, search for the tweet, and deal with the person directly? If someone has used your number, they probably don't want you tweeting to their account.

so now it's been magically fixed. two hours ago, searching L'Oreal omitted results containing the exclamation mark. now everything appears the way it should.

I think the basic problem here is with Twitter Search's handling of the exclamation mark. It appears to become part of a word in the Twitter Search data set in a way that question marks, periods and commas do not.

I get you on # and @, but these aren't really punctuation. They're typographical marks. Commas, periods, apostrophes and parentheses are part of language orthography in a way typographical marks are not.

The Unicode and ASCII standards distinguish punctuation from other symbols.

My goal: I want to search for L'Oreal and have the correct results returned to me. The fact that a word appears at the end of a sentence (... L'Oreal!) should not mean that tweet is not included in a search for just the word L'Oreal. In contemporary "short-text" English, people often leave out apostrophes and hyphens, so I think it's fair to assume that LOreal == L'Oreal. However, it's most important for a word to be counted regardless of its position in a sentence. L'Oreal == L'Oreal! == L'Oreal? == L'Oreal.

It is interesting that when you search
L'Oreal,
L'Oreal.
L'Oreal!
and
L'Oreal? The same results are returned. I would say that these are the correct results (because it includes L'Oreal!). However, when you leave off the trailing punctuation, only the tweets containing L'Oreal! are excluded!

Twitter Search allows us to search for questions by searching for the question mark (?) but if the question mark is attached to a word in the search query, it's basically ignored.

Thanks, but I already do know how to use the OR operator.

All three are the same search. I don't agree that there are three different terms.

There's no qualitative difference between L'Oreal, LOreal, and L'Oreal! and all of these results should appear for the term loreal.

Is there any utility to searching for punctuation-specific term usage?