Older Tweet results for #ASHRM2012 are unavailable

ashrm2012 · 2012-04-08T07:19:59.000Z

hi

I don’t why they delete the tweets . How can I retrieve them

episod · 2012-04-09T15:24:51.000Z

They aren’t deleted, they’re not available for searching. Some sites provide some historical views of tweets – try topsy.com

andymascaro · 2012-07-25T17:38:00.000Z

Hi Taylor, what causes a tweet to become unavailable for searching? I don’t see any reference to a date range limitation in the API ref doc for search: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/search

Thanks

episod · 2012-07-25T17:51:45.000Z

The index varies in length over time, but generally only goes back about 1 week. Other factors than age are also at work, as the Search API does not index all public tweets. See this FAQ more info:

[faq:8650]

andymascaro · 2012-07-25T19:34:54.000Z

Thanks Taylor.

So if I understand correctly, one can retrieve all of a certain user’s tweets, using timeline, by paginating through results with a max of 3200. But when looking for tweets by any user that contain a certain hashtag, because search is used, results go back give or take a week or 1500 results, whichever comes first.

episod · 2012-07-25T21:53:10.000Z

Hi Andy,

More or less that is the state of things. You may be able to obtain the historical data you’re looking for through Topsy.com or DataSift and Gnip.

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