Got it Matt - thanks! E.
On Apr 27, 9:38 am, Matt Sanford <m...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > We're working to make the window of tweets you can search longer > but we've had some technical limitations to work out. Once we have > passed these issues we should be able to make the window larger but I > think it is unlikely we will ever support searching all tweets. > > Thanks; > – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford > Twitter Dev > > On Apr 25, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Esé wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I've been trying to dig up some older tweets by date range (from last > > year) and the results keep coming up empty. I found this post from > > Matt here > > -http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/e4cec438a... > > - > > > "The reason for your error is that the since: date you provided is > > older than the data currently available. We plan to improve the error > > messaging when we merge the search and main APIs, so hopefully things > > will be clearer after that. > > We try to keep as much search data on hand as we can but we're > > currently limited on disk space. As the rate of tweets increases we > > need more and more disk to keep old data on hand. We've ordered more > > disks and await them eagerly. Once those are installed the date range > > for searches can start growing again. Sorry for the confusing error > > messaging. " > > > So, currently, are only the past 7 days or so indexed? And would there > > be an ETA as to when all the archived tweets are finally made > > available or are you folks still fighting the happy problem of just > > trying to not get swamped right now? :-) > > > Thanks! > > > E.