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Re:Panning for Pangrams: The Search for the New Quick Brown Fox by solaris999 on Monday July 06, 2015 @10:57AM (#9839534)
Isn't it a bit silly to throw away every single @<user> tweet? Imagine I'm having a twitter conversation with my friends about who can make the best pangram and this data is ignored just because we're tweeting @ each other?

I'm guessing that the majority of tweets will reference a person. How about just stripping that @word from the tweet?

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Re:Panning for Pangrams: The Search for the New Quick Brown Fox by TheRedBarron on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:32AM (#9839809)
Interesting. The issue I was getting was that it would like tweets that were "@MyFriendWhoHasAUserNameLikeZXCVBNMQWERTYU hey". Should I just strip it of the word "@____"?
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Re:Panning for Pangrams: The Search for the New Quick Brown Fox by yathern on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:41AM (#9839883)
That would absolutely be the way I'd suggest going about it.
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Re:Panning for Pangrams: The Search for the New Quick Brown Fox by TheRedBarron on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:50AM (#9839963)
Okay. Iteration is key! I'll update her maybe tonight. Thanks
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Re:Panning for Pangrams: The Search for the New Quick Brown Fox by abecedarius on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:42AM (#9839892)
I'd try stripping such words (and URLs) when they appear at the start or end of the tweet. If in the middle, removing seems likely to mess with the meaning.
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