The search API's available corpus of tweets for search varies -- it's not always exactly a week, as tweet velocity has an effect on how many tweets can be made readily available for searching. Search also contains only a portion of the total amount of tweets in the system at any one time: http://support.twitter.com/groups/32-something-s-not-working/topics/118-search/articles/66018-my-tweets-or-hashtags-are-missing-from-search-known-issue
Thanks, Taylor On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:00 AM, mX. <michael.g.xena...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hullo all - > > While I opted to keep the subject line short(er), I allow that this > may all be a case of user error and that there may be nothing either > random w/ the API. That said... > > ... I've been working w/ the REST API and am trying to incorporate > some of the Search API functionality, but am having a very difficult > time w/ it. An immediate example is the fact that the API seems to > return very few items from its search. > > E.g., the following search strings (740AM PST, Tue Aug 10): > feed://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23thenyknicks+OR+%23allan_houston > - returns 4 tweets dating back to Thu Aug 5, 110P (per Twitter > feeds) > feed:// > search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23thenyknicks+OR+%23allan_houston+OR+from%3Athenyknicks+OR+from%3Aallan_houston > - returns 13 tweets dating back to Thu Aug 5, 601A (per Twitter > feeds) > feed:// > search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23thenyknicks+OR+%23allan_houston+OR+from%3Athenyknicks+OR+from%3Aallan_houston+OR+%232MNBA > - returns 15 tweets dating back to Sun Aug 8, 127P (per Twitter > feeds) > > All the information I've read re: rate limits should put 15 tweets > well below that. Further, although the API docs suggest the data for > the Search API is indexed only for the last seven days, I would still > expect to see tweets for all of the last seven days, rather than only > five (e.g., the first search should have returned more Tweets dating > back to Aug 3. > > All in all the API does not appear to be working as advertised, > however, I may be missing the fine print. > > Is there a limit on the # of days back which the search parameters > will reach? And what is it? > Is there a limit on the # of tweets that will be returned? And what is > it? > > Thank you in advance! > mX. >
