The index has been shortened considerably to help reduce the replication lag that is causing some search machines to fall behind. Thanks, Doug
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Joe Fernandez <joey.fernan...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Hey Doug, > > We are seeing search limited all the way down to about 7 days right > now. Is this true? > > This is causing a lot of problems with our app. > > Thanks, > Joe > > > > > On Apr 27, 1:33 pm, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: > > From #6 on Things Every Developer Should Know [1]. > > Search API Limit > > > > Clients may request up to 1,500 statuses via the page and count > parameters > > for the search <http://apiwiki.twitter.com/search> method. The response > to a > > request exceeding this limit will be a status code of 200 and an empty > > result in the format requested. This artificial limit is in place to > ensure > > the performance of the search system. We also restrict the size of the > > search index by placing a date limit on the updates we allow you to > search. > > This limit is currently around a month but is dynamic and subject to > shrink > > as the number of tweets per day continues to grow. > > 1.http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Things-Every-Developer-Should-Know#6Therea. > .. > > > > Doug Williams > > Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw > > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:47 PM, explicious <avail4...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > is that really supposed to be "dominoes" (sic) ? > > > > > > days ... example: search "dominoes pizza". I searched this on 4/17 >
