Delay and Inconsistent results using Twitter search API when using "since_id" parameter.

Question

Hi. We've noticed what seems to be a delay and/or inconsistent results using the Twitter Search API when specifying a sinceid in the param clause. For example:

http://search.twitter.com/search?ors=%23b4esummit+@b4esummit+b4esummit&q=&result_type=recent&rpp=100&show_user=true&since_id=

Will give the most recent Tweets, but:

http://search.twitter.com/search?ors=%23b4esummit+@b4esummit+b4esummit&q=&result_type=recent&rpp=100&show_user=true&since_id= 12642940173

will often not give tweets that are after that ID for several hours (even though they're visible in the first query)...

anyone have similar problems?

Answer 1

Yep, posted a tweet over 5hrs ago. Still waiting for it to show under my saved search through api - even on tweetie

Answer 2

Same problem. I´m getting (delayed) results from some users and other i can't. Also i can´t understand what logic it uses to get results. Maybe using another way, like using CURL and Twitt API. Whatever, i dont know!