retrieving tweets from specific user older than 7 days

Question

i am trying to Get the tweets from any user ... but it returns only last 7 day's tweets... I want to retrieve tweets older than that... how to Do it.. .

Right now i am fetching tweets by

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3Amihirpmehta

this URL

but it only gives me tweets that are tweeted in last 7 days.

Answer 1

I don't think the twitter search API allows you to go back any further. If you add the until parameter you can see that if you go back more than a week it returns a 404.