if it helps this is the json results i get off the second call
{"statuses":[],"search_metadata":{"completed_in":0.05,"max_id":307496364764450816,"max_id_str":"307496364764450816","query":"django","refresh_url":"?since_id=307496364764450816&q=django&result_type=mixed&include_entities=1","count":15,"since_id":0,"since_id_str":"0"},"httpstatus":200}
I also switched to trying the codebird.php libraries but it is doing the same thing.