Perhaps I have missed it (I have looked) but is there is a way to search ONLY the tweets from people whom a user of your service follows? i.e. after OAuth then search all the tweets from folks whom they are following - including @reply's and accounts who are set private? Ideally as far into the past as the API's will allow access but limited to a time period would be useful as well.
As best I can tell the search API isn't authenticated and is against only public tweets. Have I missed a functionality? If not, is anything like this planned for a future API? (before I start building the tools to handle it via more manual processes myself - i.e. for authenticated users get all the tweets from everyone the follow over time and build my own search engine against that dataset) Shannon