I am trying to request a Twitter search API for a user, multiple 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 request a specific hashtag from a specific user. I want either / or results. If I use the following syntax, it works, but it also searches for the contents of the tweet, not just the hashtag, which is not so nice.

Contains a search (WORKS)

?q=from:user1 OR hashtag1 OR hashtag2

Is there a way to accomplish what I'm looking for or not? I also tried the following

(dotted)

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

, . . (: in_id max_id , rpp, .)