There is currently an artificial limit to the number of tweets that can be retrieved via search. This topic has been discussed before so the history is available by searching the group. There are plans to remove this restriction as resources and engineers allow.
Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:48 AM, kate starbird <[email protected]> wrote: > > During the last month, the available time window for searching has > been shrinking by days at a time. Currently, I cannot retrieve any > Tweets from earlier than Feb 27. By the end of the day, this window > will be less than a month. I am making some decisions about a project > and am wondering if Twitter plans to address this issue (which I > assume is due to an upper bound on the # of tweets stored and > available for searching). With more and more users joining and > tweeting, this search window will only continue to shrink. I imagine > that in two weeks, at this pace, we won't be able to search beyond a > week into the past. > Perhaps there is a workaround or a fix in the works. Anyone know? >
