I was wondering if there is a better way to get a total number of tweets on a search string than using the search API and then paging through the tweets. I am interested in getting the total number of tweets for a topic since a particular time, generally the time of my last update, but it appears the only way to get a count is to page through the results, which would just lead to a ton of requests, instead of being able to just get an aggregate count in one api call.
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