[twitter-dev] Inconsistency between JSON and Atom search API

[Hwee-Boon Yar]

This is search results for JSON and Atom call, 10 minutes after the
tweet was sent (timestamp 2009-12-05T03:38:11Z). 0 results for JSON, 1
result for Atom

JSON
===
0 results:

$ curl "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?
q=to:Smoothe_1&since_id=6357863332"

{"results":[],"max_id":6358271161,"since_id":
6357863332,"refresh_url":"?since_id=6358271161&q=to
%3ASmoothe_1","results_per_page":15,"page":1,"completed_in":
0.013333,"query":"to%3ASmoothe_1"}


Atom
===
1 result:

$ curl "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?
q=to:Smoothe_1&since_id=6357863332"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns:google="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0"; xml:lang="en-US"
xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"; xmlns="http://
www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:twitter="http://api.twitter.com/";>
  <id>tag:search.twitter.com,2005:search/to:Smoothe_1</id>
  <link type="text/html" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=to
%3ASmoothe_1" rel="alternate"/>
  <link type="application/atom+xml" href="http://search.twitter.com/
search.atom?q=to:Smoothe_1&amp;since_id=6357863332" rel="self"/>
  <title>to:Smoothe_1 - Twitter Search</title>
  <link type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://
search.twitter.com/opensearch.xml" rel="search"/>
  <link type="application/atom+xml" href="http://search.twitter.com/
search.atom?q=to%3ASmoothe_1&amp;since_id=6359226173" rel="refresh"/>
  <updated>2009-12-05T03:38:11Z</updated>
  <openSearch:itemsPerPage>15</openSearch:itemsPerPage>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:search.twitter.com,2005:6359226173</id>
    <published>2009-12-05T03:38:11Z</published>
    <link type="text/html" href="http://twitter.com/simplytweet/
statuses/6359226173" rel="alternate"/>
    <title>@Smoothe_1 is it still not working? Server side seems ok
though.</title>
    <content type="html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/
Smoothe_1&quot;&gt;@Smoothe_1&lt;/a&gt; is it still not working?
Server side seems ok though.</content>
    <updated>2009-12-05T03:38:11Z</updated>
    <link type="image/png" href="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/
234093666/73_normal.png" rel="image"/>
    <twitter:geo>
    </twitter:geo>
    <twitter:source>&lt;a href=&quot;http://simplytweet.com&quot;
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SimplyTweet&lt;/a&gt;</twitter:source>
    <twitter:lang>en</twitter:lang>
    <author>
      <name>simplytweet (simplytweet)</name>
      <uri>http://twitter.com/simplytweet</uri>
    </author>
  </entry>
</feed>

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Hwee-Boon