[twitter-dev] Re: API only shows messages from last 7 days

2009-07-29 Thread owkaye
You're probably correct when you say that throwing more programmers at the problem is not the solution. That's not what I was suggesting ... My thought is that there may be no one at Twitter actually planning or developing a plan for historical data access, and if this is true then hiring

[twitter-dev] Re: API only shows messages from last 7 days

2009-07-28 Thread David Fisher
I am a bit concerned. I remember at one point it being between 30-45 days. Now it seems to be getting smaller by about 1-day per month. Last month it was closer to 10 days. Is it basically going to keep getting smaller and smaller until we get V2 of the API, or will we be forced to all use only

[twitter-dev] Re: API only shows messages from last 7 days

2009-07-28 Thread owkaye
I agree with you Dave. I have several thought about new services based on searching Twitter's historical data. Unfortunately my ideas appear to be getting less and less practical. Twitter claims to have all its data stored in disk-based databases from what I understand ... yet without

[twitter-dev] Re: API only shows messages from last 7 days

2009-07-28 Thread David Fisher
I would do anything (including paying good amounts of money) to be able to purchase access to older datasets that I could transfer to my database through non-rest-api methods. I'm envisioning being able to download a CSV or SQL file that I could merge with my database easily, but only have to

[twitter-dev] Re: API only shows messages from last 7 days

2009-07-28 Thread owkaye
I'm sure others feel the same way Dave, but it looks and feels like Twitter is moving in the opposite direction. The load on a server to extract a big dataset once a month would be minimal, and both you and I can see the value in this approach. But I'm not sure the folks at Twitter do, or

[twitter-dev] Re: API only shows messages from last 7 days

2009-07-28 Thread David Fisher
I don't think that adding more people to the staff at Twitter is the solution. In one startup I saw a thing posted on the refrigerator that had the adage, Adding more people to a project already behind schedule will only slow it down more. Surely for support and customer service issues having

[twitter-dev] Re: API only shows messages from last 7 days

2009-07-27 Thread Abraham Williams
It was at least a month when Twitter acquired Summize. Abraham 2009/7/25 Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com I believe the tweet retention in Twitter Search has always been 7 days. On Jul 25, 1:18 pm, Flashing Moose flashingmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, having some trouble with the API

[twitter-dev] Re: API only shows messages from last 7 days

2009-07-27 Thread Flashing Moose
Hmm, then i can't use the API for this project, thx for replies guys. On 26 jul, 04:10, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the tweet retention in Twitter Search has always been 7 days. On Jul 25, 1:18 pm, Flashing Moose flashingmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, having some

[twitter-dev] Re: API only shows messages from last 7 days

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Etzel
Hi Moose, The documentation may be a bit out-dated. Right now the limit for all searches is pretty much 7 days b/c of performance/storage reasons. They are working on extending that window, but there is not a specific date for having that accomplished. -Chad On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:18 PM,

[twitter-dev] Re: API only shows messages from last 7 days

2009-07-25 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I believe the tweet retention in Twitter Search has always been 7 days. On Jul 25, 1:18 pm, Flashing Moose flashingmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, having some trouble with the API because only the messages from the last 7 days show up: example: