title: twitter API search/tweets - How to filter to search user-relevant tweets using query operator?
body: <p>The default is apparently to search all public tweets. I am trying to use the search API to return tweets from only the user's followers, or from the user's "twitterfeed", or both. In the search manual (<a href="https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search" rel="nofollow">https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search</a>) it says I am able to include a "query operator" of source:twitterfeed to accomplish the latter. I have tried this on the twitter website search form, and it works, or at least it does something. When I try it with my API search, I get no results. No error, no results. My API search works fine without it. I do url-encode the query operator and I have tried adding it in front or behind my search query.</p>
  
  <p>Here is an example path I have tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=source%253Atwitterfeed%2520fg&amp;count=7&amp;result_type=recent
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  <p>Also on the twitter search page there is an optional parameter "f=follows" which allows you to search only followers. Can I use this with the API? I have tried using it directly and it did not have any effect.</p>