Searching for parentheses

[geotheory]

Not sure if related to issue 53. Reading an article today on a reported far-right technique of using (((handle))) to denote certain users, I wondered about searching for ((( or ))) to analyse this offensive technique. But the search fails:

searchTwitter("(((", n=5)
Error in twInterfaceObj$doAPICall(cmd, params, "GET", ...) : 
  Forbidden (HTTP 403).

I can suppress the error with lang="en", but the results don't contain any matches for the search term. Do you know if this is an issue with the Twitter API?

[josescuderoh]

Did you solve this issue? I'm having a similar problem. Thanks in advance!