Twitter Search API multiple hash tags or users

Question

I am trying to query the Twitter Search API for either a user, several users, a hashtag, several hashtags, or any combo of them. I am struggling with the syntax.

Multiple users (WORKS)

?q=from:user1 OR from:user2 OR from user3

Single hashtag (WORKS)

?q=with:#hashtag

Combo (BROKEN)

?q=from:user1 OR from:user2 OR with:#hash1 OR with:hash2
//returns most recent tweets and ignores my query altogether. No error

I do not want to query a specific hashtag from a specific user. I want either/or results. If I use the following syntax, it works, but it also searches the contents of the tweet, as opposed to just the hashtag, which is not as nice.

Contains search (WORKS)

?q=from:user1 OR hashtag1 OR hashtag2

Is there any way to accomplish what I am looking for or no? I have also tried the following

(BROKEN)

?q=from:user1 OR from:user2 OR with:hash1 OR hash2 OR hash3

Hope this make sense. I can clarify further if needed. (Note: I am using since_id and max_id in my actual environment, as well as rpp, but for the ease of this question, I left them out of my examples.)

Answer 1

This answer was written in 2013. The API it uses has since been retired. It is kept for historical interest only. For Twitter API authenticated requests are now required now.

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During same research i found to search with multiple hashtags in API V1.1. you can do like

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#hashtag1+OR+#hashtag2

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#hashtag1+AND+#hashtag2

AND/OR will be caps and not forgot to values URL encode. for more detail you can look here https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search