I noticed a weird bug when searching for tweets based on hashtags - it might be related to the language (this is an Aarabic hashtag) but most of the times, for the same language, it works.
If I do this search:
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%23إيجابيتي
It works as expected, with lots of tweets from today and yesterday. If instead I add an “until” parameter, I always get 0 results - even if the date is today or tomorrow (at the time of writing):
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?until=2015-04-07&q=%23إيجابيتي
https://snap.apigee.com/1JjJJLD
This is independent from:
- the url encoding
- the order of the parameters
- using result_type=recent or not
The same search (with the same “until” parameter) from the Twitter main website gives many results - ie, there are recent tweets from yesterday using the hashtag.
Lastly, using a different Arabic hashtag with until works - so it’s not something specific about the language:
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?until=2015-04-07&q=%23بسمة_الحياة
https://snap.apigee.com/1JjL31c
Weird.
