Search API screen return 404

[Michael Lee]

Hello All,
I'm searching for all the replies from a specified ID
(1103044621) but the page is returning a 404. However if I change the
since_id (up or down) everything works fine. The name I search for
does not matter. If you change mrmlk to anything else I still get a
404.

404:
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=+to%3Amrmlk&since_id=1103044621

Works fine:
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=+to%3Amrmlk&since_id=1103044620
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=+to%3Amrmlk&since_id=1103044622

Any idea what is going on, and why post 1103044621 is special.

Thanks
Mike

[Matt Sanford]

Hi Mike,

    If a status ID does not exit in search it cannot be used as a since_id. It looks like 1103044621 is not in search, hence the error. The since_id was created mostly to support pagination and refreshes so it takes certain things like this for granted. Relying on that ID being in the database is used for a big optimization, so it's not something we can remove.

Thanks;

  — Matt