From my perspective (a developer who has leveraged the API from 1.0 on), search has always been 'different'.
At first, it didn't exist. So some company (Summize) created it. Then, Twitter acquired them (actually their first acquisition).
Some time later the search method was absorbed into the Twitter API. The syntax hasn't changed since.
It always felt like they just re-deployed the Summize app and proxied an API path to it. Though it's quite likely it's been rewritten many times by now.
Farfetched, but I guess I'm saying it may be a cultural thing.
From my perspective (a developer who has leveraged the API from 1.0 on), search has always been 'different'.
At first, it didn't exist. So some company (Summize) created it. Then, Twitter acquired them (actually their first acquisition).
Some time later the search method was absorbed into the Twitter API. The syntax hasn't changed since.
It always felt like they just re-deployed the Summize app and proxied an API path to it. Though it's quite likely it's been rewritten many times by now.
Farfetched, but I guess I'm saying it may be a cultural thing.