Recently we’ve received several comments about #tags not working when searching for tweets, or flickr tags. We’ve been doing some testing and finally discovered that the bug had to do with the javascript embed code, and how this code passes #tags onto the flash movie.
For now we’ve fixed this by adjusting the embed code: when you want to use a Twitterfountain that searches for tweets that start with ‘#’, we recommend you copy and paste a new embed code in your blog, by using the ‘embed code‘ button in any twitterfountain.
You can also adjust the code by hand, in that case you need to replace all the ‘#‘ characters with ‘%23‘. For example:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.twitterfountain.nl/embed/twitterfountain.js?fv_event=%23twitterfountain, fv_flickr=twitterfountain,fv_kleur=FF6600, fv_animationtype=1, fv_showtint=true, width=400, height=300″></script>