[dtsingletary]

... Which you could them pull into a database and filter with your Regex after the API. What does the noise cost you? It's a solvable problem. true, the expanded results may keep you from getting relevant tweets due to rate limiting.

[yo-mf]

But that is the point, you get rate limited. Of course you can take the data set and clean it in your own database. The problem is how much relevant data you can get before getting cut off.