Twitter search and earliest possible date

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Twitter search and earliest possible date

Hi Can anyone familiar with the Twitter Search API tell me what the earliest possible Search date in (YYYY-MM-DD) format is?

Also, when using this date, is it necessary to omit any date limited query string parameters?

And does the order of query string parameters matter?

If I remember correctly search is limited to the previous 7 days, so it's right now - 7 days.

citricsquid 2010-02-09 19:14:36

Due to the way Twitter stores and serves Tweets in their search API, the minimum date won't really matter. This is because only the last 1,500 results for a given search are stored and served. There's also some sort of time limit, where if you're using lesser-used search term or hash tag, Tweets will expire after 7 days.

ETA: In practice, it seems Tweets are stored/served longer than 7 days.

Langdon 2010-02-09 19:15:23

Wow, if true that's not taking real advantage of the power of search. I assume this is a server storage rather than performance issue. I assumed you could search back until the birth of Twitter..

eco_bach 2010-02-09 20:27:47

Unless I'm mistaken it seems that if you use the offcial Twitter search page, you CAN search back furtheriehttp://search.twitter.com/search?q=+%23nfl+since%3A2008-01-01Does Twitter check to see what application made the original call and then throttle back the availability of some search parameters?

eco_bach 2010-02-09 21:08:44

It is pretty lame, but it's tough to imagine how much (crap) data they have to deal with and the sacrifices they have to make. And no, I don't think they throttle based on what application is searching... tweets I made on January 8th are not reachable through the search (using unique hash tags).

Langdon 2010-02-10 02:14:30

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