I am not sure if I understand this correctly (how the artificial limit affects "until" searches)... I am looking for tweets dated Feb 06 - Feb 12 2009. Do these still exist? Is there a way to access them? The total # of tweets I want to retrieve each time is far fewer than the artificial max number, but the date structure of the search is defeating me. I get nothing before April 2 (currently).
On Apr 6, 10:12 am, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: > There is currently an artificial limit to the number of tweets that > can be retrieved via search. This topic has been discussed before so > the history is available by searching the group. There are plans to > remove this restriction as resources and engineers allow. > > Doug Williams > Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:48 AM, kate starbird > > <katestarb...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > During the last month, the available time window for searching has > > been shrinking by days at a time. Currently, I cannot retrieve any > > Tweets from earlier than Feb 27. By the end of the day, this window > > will be less than a month. I am making some decisions about a project > > and am wondering if Twitter plans to address this issue (which I > > assume is due to an upper bound on the # of tweets stored and > > available for searching). With more and more users joining and > > tweeting, this search window will only continue to shrink. I imagine > > that in two weeks, at this pace, we won't be able to search beyond a > > week into the past. > > Perhaps there is a workaround or a fix in the works. Anyone know?
