The app is a competition system, so really I need to try and retrieve all entries of a hashtag if possible (but if it's not possible, then other comp systems mustn't either, surely?)
Thanks for the suggestions - might try and utilise DataSift for it. On Jan 13, 1:04 am, "@Red_Eyes" <[email protected]> wrote: > The maximum number of tweets you can return per page is 100. If you return > all the pages available you can get to around 1,500 max. These limits are > defined in the search API documentation. > (http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search). > > You may be better either looking at the streaming API and hope some of the > Tweets you are looking for turn up, or use your random number generator to > search "n" times and pull back 100 Tweets at a go. You would have to set an > interval between searches otherwise you are likley to pull back the same > Tweet more than once, especially if it is a seldom used hashtag. > > Perhaps if you have a number of hashtags you are looking for, you could > "round robin" through all of them with a suitable delay between each one > (still checking for duplicates)... or possibly check for the same hashtag at > the same time each day if you are looking for some sort of frequency > indicator. Alternatively add some sort of randomness to the date range per > your example. > > Paul -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
