Re: [twitter-dev] Help!! please. How to collect old data by Twitter API

2010-12-24 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
I'll be simple: you can't achieve this with the Twitter API. Maybe other APIs can help you, but I don't know one. Tom On 12/24/10 6:13 AM, Chris Bang wrote: I’m developing a program to collect historical data or twits from Twitter using Twitter search API and Twitter4J which means the

Re: [twitter-dev] Help!! please. How to collect old data by Twitter API

2010-12-24 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:53:12 +0100, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: I'll be simple: you can't achieve this with the Twitter API. Maybe other APIs can help you, but I don't know one. Tom There are some services that have indexed tweets for more than Twitter's default of seven days. I

Re: [twitter-dev] Help!! please. How to collect old data by Twitter API

2010-12-24 Thread Adam Green
It depends on how you want to select these tweets. If you need to find tweets based on keywords without knowing the users, then the search API won't go back more than about 7 days, as you say. If you want tweets from users that you have already identified, you can get up to 3,200 old tweets from