Hi Zippy,
The search index is limited in how far back it can go. What this means is if
the hashtag you are searching for hasn't been used in the last week there
won't be any results returned.
In addition, not all Tweets are indexed by the Search API. This is explained
a little more in our user
I used Twitter's own Search widget code generator to build search
widgets for two of my sites, InterestingAmerica.com and
HightPerformanceDataCenters.com to pick up messages tweeted from the
sites using their respective hashtabs (#IntAm and #hpdcnews). (take a
look -- they are on the right side of
