You can call the Twitter search API as follows:

http://search.twitter.com/search.format?q=your_query_string

In the previous call, the format can be replaced with json or atom. Furthermore, we can make a JSONP call with the extra callback parameter.

http://search.twitter.com/search.format?q=your_query_string&callback=?

Let's suppose we want to search tweets with php in the search keyword and have the response in JSON format; then we can call the Twitter API like the Twitter API like this:

http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=php

Here you can see the interface of the Twitter search application using Ajax. This is a very simple interface with minimal CSS. There is a textbox where user the enters the search keyword...