What is the query you are making?

Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:27 PM, kate starbird <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> March 2, not April 2. I cannot get any messages before March 2.
>
> On Apr 6, 2:38 pm, kate starbird <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am not sure if I understand this correctly (how the artificial limit
> > affects "until" searches)... I am looking for tweets dated Feb 06 -
> > Feb 12 2009. Do these still exist? Is there a way to access them? The
> > total # of tweets I want to retrieve each time is far fewer than the
> > artificial max number, but the date structure of the search is
> > defeating me. I get nothing before April 2 (currently).
> >
> > On Apr 6, 10:12 am, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > 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 Supporthttp://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?
>

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