Jack I don't know if this will be useful to you but we have a representative sample of tweets from past months in our search tool. Right now it goes back to February. See for example:
http://search.trendistic.com/iran/_on-2009-02-01 Change the date and query for any date between February and today. Diego On Nov 28, 3:12 pm, Jack Widman <jack.wid...@gmail.com> wrote: > What are the oldest tweets I can search for? Is use of 'since' the only way? > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > > there is currently no way to search for tweets that are that old. > > > I am using the search api and want to get tweets from, say, one year > >> ago. the 'since', parameter seems not to be working. e.g. > > >>http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=obama&until=2009-03-24 > > >> returns no results. > > >> Am I doing something wrong? > > > -- > > Raffi Krikorian > > Twitter Platform Team > > ra...@twitter.com | @raffi > >
