getting older tweets

jack

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Nov 28, 2009, 12:57:50 PM11/28/09

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I am using the search api and want to get tweets from, say, one year
ago. the 'since', parameter seems not to be working. e.g.

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=obama&until=2009-03-24

returns no results.

Am I doing something wrong?

Raffi Krikorian

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Nov 28, 2009, 1:09:31 PM11/28/09

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there is currently no way to search for tweets that are that old.

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Jack Widman

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Nov 28, 2009, 1:12:54 PM11/28/09

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What are the oldest tweets I can search for? Is use of 'since' the only way?

dbasch

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Nov 28, 2009, 1:29:21 PM11/28/09

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Jack

I don't know if this will be useful to you but we have a
representative sample of tweets from past months in our search tool.
Right now it goes back to February. See for example:

http://search.trendistic.com/iran/_on-2009-02-01

Change the date and query for any date between February and today.

Diego

Jack Widman

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Nov 28, 2009, 1:34:39 PM11/28/09

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Yes. Thanks Diego, that is useful.

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