Intermittent "Hmmm, an empty timeline. That’s weird." Message

[jamjaxn]

I’ve read that this can appear if there aren’t any tweets within 7 days. I’d understand that if this were a consistent issue, but I’m getting differing results from one refresh to the next.

Ultimately, it seems to come down to which Twitter server handles the request. Take a look at the following Gist. Notice the response sizes are consistent from server tsa_a (from which I am getting content), and all over the place with tsa_b (when I get the “Hmmm” message). https://git.io/v2lEI

Is this a bug/fluke?

[indianburger]

We looked into this, just forgot to close the loop here. There were some issues on our end for a brief period during that time window but were fixed pretty quickly. Do let us know if you notice this again.

Excellent bug report. Thanks for digging in.

[ivyclark]

Unfortunately, I’m still seeing this inconsistent behaviour.

On one page, the search timeline displays tagged posts by a user up to a 1.5 months old; but on another page, we’re getting an empty tweets although that are tweets just over 2 weeks old. Both pages are on the same website and showcase tweets by the same user, but using different hashtags.

What am I missing?

[jamjaxn]

Okay, I can’t seem to reproduce this in situ anymore (I don’t seem to be getting any responses from tsa_b in my real world example). (The cURL test still bounces between tsa_a and tsa_b, but I don’t understand enough about it to know why, or whether it matters; I’m going to assume it doesn’t matter.)

[system]

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