Hi Everyone, I've been running my script as a cron task (every 15 minutes) since last evening. So far I've got about 1375 results logged, out of which 973 are duplicates (meaning "stale" entries)...a staggering 70.7076% or approximately 71%. This is way more than expected..so a shout out to the development team - Is there anyway to solve this problem, get around it ? @Diego, thanks a lot for confirming what I found. Also I tried querying frequently like you suggested, and yes I do hit "good" results more frequently. I didn't get the idea of the least significant decimal - are u referring to the geocode?
@twitter dev team I do agree with Diego, there is got to be a way of getting "good" search results without finding ways to "trick" the API. Even with a cache, I see no reason why I should be getting results from over 6 hours ago for my search query. Regards, Elroy On Nov 28, 10:16 pm, dbasch <dba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Elroy, > > I tried your query from python several times within the same minute. > After running the query several times in a row I start getting fresh > results and they remain fresh for a while. I tried changing the least > significant decimal to make it a different query and I get stale > results immediately. Switching back yields fresh results. > > This to me suggests that there may be two search tiers: one for low- > frequency queries that probably searches a subset of tweets, and > another one for frequent ones that searches everything and has an LRU > cache of important queries. It seems that we can force queries into > the LRU cache of the "good" tier by querying frequently enough. When I > stop querying for three minutes or so I see the old results again. The > question for the search team is how to have your query treated as an > "important" one without abusing the API. > > Diego > > Diego > > On Nov 28, 1:18 pm, enygmatic <enygma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I got some requests to post the query that I am using: > > here is the query > > :http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=19.017656%2C72.856178%2... > > Do correct me if I am not querying or using the API correctly. (Should > > have been my first question actually :) ) > > > Also here is a sample of the output from my ruby script. It will give > > you an idea of the "stale" results that I am getting. The script was > > run at approximately 21:37 IST. As you can see, I'm getting tweets > > all the way back to 14:00 hours in the afternoon. I'm pretty sure > > there are more tweets for my location. I'm querying for tweets > > originating out of Mumbai, and by querying through twitter search I > > have noticed that there are at least 40-50 tweets posted every 2 > > minutes or so. > > Output follows: Date-Day-Hour-Minute-Tweet-User-Hashtags(csv, if any)- > > source of tweet (All date/time info below is in IST) > > 2009-11-28 Saturday 21 27 �...@abhishek_rai I too am > > huge fan of > > quizzing.. do let me kno if u find anythin interesting. ty > > Shakti_Shetty (Shakti Shetty) web > > 2009-11-28 Saturday 21 21 �...@surubhi hallow darlin, > > 'm fine doin > > great...how about u? dacku87 (darshan thacker) mobile web > > 2009-11-28 Saturday 20 40 powai mocha so full of > > people, smaloe > > conversations and music.. sumagambs (Sumit Singh Gambhir) web > > 2009-11-28 Saturday 20 25 �...@thetruboy idk we'll > > see. 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Thanks for being a huge part of my life. <3 LuvPaula > > (Anahita Abdul Cowell) web > > 2009-11-28 Saturday 15 18 �...@richa_august84 fan of > > purane hindi gaane, > > hmm? me too!! sonali_k (sonali_k) web > > 2009-11-28 Saturday 14 54 Fruits and Vegetables for > > energyzing the > > Solar Plexus Chakra:http://bit.ly/4NQV9M AnamikaS (Anamika S) > > web > > 2009-11-28 Saturday 14 52 I'm off to read and then > > sleep. Don't dare > > disturb my slumber. eyemanut87 (Moo) Snaptu > > 2009-11-28 Saturday 14 52 White House gate-crashers > > met Obama, PM: > > American couple Michaele and Tareq Salahi, who gate-crashed into a > > State D...http://bit.ly/5TH6k5RediffNews(Rediff News) > > twitterfeed > > 2009-11-28 Saturday 14 45 �...@subutcher Good Morning. > > Have wonderful > > ahead :) nikhilwad1 (Nikhil Wad) UberTwitter > > 2009-11-28 Saturday 14 41 �...@venkatananth hey! 1- > > was standing at the > > bar. 2-liked the music. Very interesting. But had to leave cos friend > > had an early mrng flight :( wanderblah (wanderblah) dabr
