We're seeing the exact same problem in our application. We happen to be using the Twitter ruby gem, but we are experiencing the same behavior.
-Ryan On Feb 9, 3:22 pm, chouck <cho...@gnipcentral.com> wrote: > I've been using curl to access search.twitter.com and recently I've > noticed that occasionally it is returning invalid tweets. I'm > searching for a query-term that shows up very infrequently in the > tweet stream, and am using the curl command: > > curl "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=query- > term&rpp=99&result_type=recent&since_id=35409539146719234" > > What I've found is that about 99% of the time I get back an empty > response, just the <feed> tag wrapped around the meta data for the > query but no results. But if I just run the exact same curl command > over and over again, occasionally I'll get a response with a full > payload of 99 tweets, none of which have anything to do with my search > terms. Subsequent executions of the same curl command return the > response w/o any tweets in it. > > Its a little hard to explain, but I have a log file that shows: > > curl - no tweets > curl - no tweets > curl - no tweets > curl - 99 unrelated tweets > curl - no tweets > > All running the same command via cut-and-paste and all within the > space of a few seconds. More often than not, it seems like the > invalid tweets are all somehow related, as if I had gotten the > response for some other active query. > > Anyone else seeing anything this problem? The log file is 16K > compressed, let me know if you'd like me to send it in. > > Thanks, > -Chris -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
