I've been seeing this problem for the last couple of weeks too. I thought I was going crazy.
Most of the time when I do a search with since_id, it returns zero results. My searches always include "to:screenname" in addition to since_id. For example: With since_id: curl "http://api.twitter.com/1/search.json? since_id=5627135528&q=to%3APogue" result: { "results": [], "max_id": 5637056671, "since_id": 5627135528, "refresh_url": "?since_id=5637056671&q=to%3APogue", "results_per_page": 15, "page": 1, "completed_in": 0.012596, "query": "to%3APogue" } Without since_id: curl "http://api.twitter.com/1/search.json?q=to %3APogue" (notice that the ids are higher than the since_id I passed in): result: { "results": [{ "profile_image_url": "http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/ 351653493/IMG_7001_normal.JPG", "created_at": "Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:52:08 +0000", "from_user": "timstratton", "to_user_id": 2053065, "text": "@Pogue You have seen this right ? http://twitter.com/big_ben_clock, I have been laughing all day. Odd though, wife does not agree at all.", "id": 5639849021, "from_user_id": 5772395, "to_user": "pogue", "geo": null, "iso_language_code": "en", "source": "<a href="http://twitter.com/ ">web</a>" }, { "profile_image_url": "http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/ 242892621/Jombi_Ambigram_Square_normal.jpg", "created_at": "Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:32:15 +0000", "from_user": "JombiDotNet", "to_user_id": 2053065, "text": "@Pogue Google Suggest and Sociology http://www.slate.com/id/2234019";, "id": 5639382121, "from_user_id": 30310966, "to_user": "pogue", "geo": null, "iso_language_code": "fr", "source": "<a href="http://twitter.com/ ">web</a>" }, { "profile_image_url": "http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/ 335299002/IMG_0030_normal.JPG", "created_at": "Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:07:06 +0000", "from_user": "AaronIsaacs", "to_user_id": 2053065, "text": "@Pogue google "where can I find Chuck Norris" and click "I'm feeling lucky"", "id": 5635640329, "from_user_id": 21018646, "to_user": "pogue", "geo": null, "iso_language_code": "en", "source": "<a href="http://www.atebits.com/" rel="nofollow">Tweetie</a>" }, etc. etc. etc. [ ... snip ... ] My only workaround is to ignore the results I've already seen before but no one wins--Twitter has to send me more results and I have to process more results. A fix soon would be very much appreciated. Thanks! Brian Morearty On Nov 4, 10:50 am, twitter-development <[email protected]> wrote: > I think a few people including myself have seen this. Best guess is > that it's a caching issue on the twitter server side. Here are some > other threads with similar issues: > > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... > > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... > > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... > > On Nov 4, 3:45 am, Spode <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've been noticing some strange behaviour since last night - but > > that's not to say it's not been going on longer. > > >http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=JournoTwit&rpp=100&since_id=5... > > > Performing this search turns up 0 results when it should show 4. > > >http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=JournoTwit&rpp=100&since_id= > > > Run it with nosince_idand it works. Then straight away run the > > original query... > > >http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=JournoTwit&rpp=100&since_id=5... > > > And you get the expected 4 results. > > > What's going on? > > > Spode (journotwit.com)
