#1

We have an app that tries to automate muting spam accounts in Arabic, and it’s working well except in one case when we try to query an Arabic hashtag using the API for example #الرياض we get all the tweets except if someone adds one of the Arabic diacritics to the hashtag like #الرياضً the API won’t return that tweet which is not the same behavior as using the UI searching for #الرياض will get you #الرياضً also.

A lot of spam accounts use this technique!
An example below of spam accounts that use diacritics:

An example of spam accounts that uses diacritics
An example of spam accounts that uses diacritics1203×1815 158 KB

We are using statuses/filter endpoint, I did play with Twitter API v2 it seems that it didn’t fix the problem.

#2

Hi Mohammed,
Have you tried the Premium or Enterprise APIs?
I believe they work better with Arabic diacritics than the free API

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#3

Hi Samir,

I didn’t try Premium or Enterprise APIs, I can give premium a try but I don’t think we can use it.

#4

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