Hi, sounds like you really want to look into the streaming API instead.
http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods#statuses-filter cheers -m On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:00 PM, HRyba <bhrdes...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm developing an application that uses the Twitter Search API. The > app searches Twitter for many (at least a couple thousand) specific > keywords in real time. > > A server would be set up to get the results for the many keywords in > tweets and store them in a database that the application would access > to return the results, as opposed to every user searching for the > keywords on their end every time. > > The problem is after a while I notice that Twitter stops responding > with new results. Is Twitter caching the results after a set amount of > requests I can make in a given time period? The FAQ section on the > developer's wiki does not provide much info on the rate limiting of > the Search API other than that it is generous. Do you guys have the > inside scoop on the actual numbers? > > I see where to submit an application and the application is basically > working, but my client hasn't finalized the details for the app like > the name and url yet. Am I out of luck until I am ready to officially > submit the application for whitelisting. If not, how can I get my > application's server added to a whitelist to ensure that the tweets > return from twitter are real-time? > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk