curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1' -d '{
    "user" : "kimchy"
}'

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/2' -d '{
    "user" : "jbrook"
}'

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/3' -d '{
    "user" : "someone_else"
}'

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_aliases' -d '
{
    "actions" : [
        {
            "add" : {
                 "index" : "twitter",
                 "alias" : "tweets_by_kimchy",
                 "filter" : { "term" : { "user" : "kimchy" } }
            }
        },
        {
            "add" : {
                 "index" : "twitter",
                 "alias" : "tweets_by_jbrook",
                 "filter" : { "term" : { "user" : "jbrook" } }
            }
        }
    ]
}'

curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/tweets_by_kimchy,tweets_by_jbrook/_search?pretty=1'

{
  "took" : 1,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 5,
    "successful" : 5,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 2,
    "max_score" : 1.0,
    "hits" : [ {
      "_index" : "twitter",
      "_type" : "tweet",
      "_id" : "1",
      "_score" : 1.0, "_source" : {
    "user" : "kimchy"
}
    }, {
      "_index" : "twitter",
      "_type" : "tweet",
      "_id" : "2",
      "_score" : 1.0, "_source" : {
    "user" : "jbrook"
}
    } ]
  }


curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/tweets_by_*/_search?pretty=1'

{
  "took" : 2,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 5,
    "successful" : 5,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 3,
    "max_score" : 1.0,
    "hits" : [ {
      "_index" : "twitter",
      "_type" : "tweet",
      "_id" : "1",
      "_score" : 1.0, "_source" : {
    "user" : "kimchy"
}
    }, {
      "_index" : "twitter",
      "_type" : "tweet",
      "_id" : "2",
      "_score" : 1.0, "_source" : {
    "user" : "jbrook"
}
    }, {
      "_index" : "twitter",
      "_type" : "tweet",
      "_id" : "3",
      "_score" : 1.0, "_source" : {
   ** "user" : "someone_else" **
}
    } ]
  }