Unable to get more than 7 days of tweets using search.twitter.com

Question

Is it possible to get more than 6-9 days old data(tweets) using "https://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=" I've tried multiple things mentioned at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/search and https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search but still not able to get more than 7 days old tweets.

I can see older tweets using the UI (twitter.com) but not through search.twitter.com query string which is my actual requirement.

Is it a known thing ? or am i missing something here? Please help !!

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '13 at 15:54

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Nope, this is a limitation of the Twitter Search API. You can find it documented here:

You cannot use the Search API to find Tweets older than about a week.

answered May 06 '13 at 15:54

Adrian Petrescu

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 08 '16 at 20:37

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If you need Tweets older than a week Gnip offers historical Tweets all the way back to the very first Tweet from @jack.

Disclosure: I work at Gnip.

edited Dec 08 '16 at 20:37

answered May 06 '13 at 19:23

Jeff Lesser

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