I want to do an advanced twitter search. Part of the code I’m using

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Asked: May 25, 20262026-05-25T17:11:00+00:00 2026-05-25T17:11:00+00:00

I want to do an advanced twitter search. Part of the code I’m using is listed below.

$q = "crazy monkeys"; // <This is the query string                 
$request = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=".urlencode($q);

The problem I have is that I want to search for the exact phrase “crazy monkey”, but it is searching for tweets with crazy AND monkey in any order.

So what I would like to do is include the ” in my string.

I thought I could do it by escaping the quote using $q = "/"crazy monkey/""; but it didn’t work.

If anyone could show me how to include special operators such as ” + or – in my twitter search, I’d greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-25T17:11:00+00:00

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The ” and space are also handled well by urlencode

echo rawurlencode('"test with space "');

results in:

%22test%20with%20space%20%22

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