search api results down by a factor of ten since Jan 15, 2010

[mikiobraun]

Hello,

you may have heard of twimpact.com. We are using the search api to get
a filtered list of retweets only. We have just noticed that since
January 15, 2010, about midnight UTC, the volume of results returned
by the search API (JSON format) has gone down by about a factor of
ten.

I would like to ask whether this decrease is somehow connected to the
suggested migration to the streaming API, or whether "it's just us".

Our system's user agent begins with "twimpact/1.0", just in case.

Best,

Mikio Braun

[John Kalucki]

Perhaps someone from Search can comment?

In the mean time, please see: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/c8c713bb63fac24c

[vivekpuri]

+1

[Mikio Braun]

So, any news on the matter. This probably means that the number of
search results has deliberately been reduced to give people an
incentive to move to the streaming api's?

-M

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[John Kalucki]

Search results are altered to improve result quality. The Streaming API exists as a full-fidelity alternative for large-scale integrations.

-John Kalucki

http://twitter.com/jkalucki

Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.

[Mikio Braun]

Dear John,

thanks for the reply. We've already started to look into the migration
to the streaming API. Looks very nice so far!

-M

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:41 PM, John Kalucki <jo...@twitter.com> wrote:
> Search results are altered to improve result quality. The Streaming API
> exists as a full-fidelity alternative for large-scale integrations.
> -John Kalucki
> http://twitter.com/jkalucki
> Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.

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