why do i only see one tweet in the search from API Query?

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I'm using the following query:

https://twitter.com/search.json?callback=?&q=from:_adeel&count=5&include_entities=true&include_rts=true

and I would like to see the last 5 tweets from this user. You can see that the user has many more than 2 tweets yet the query only returns 2 tweets. I'm following the twitter search API and I fail to see what I'm doing wrong. I prefer to use the twitter search API because I want to perform the search on the client side without authentication and rate limits.

Do you see what I am doing wrong?

Also worth noting - even if you are not authenticated you are still subject to rate limits. The docs state "... all requests coming from an IP address are applied to a Search Rate Limit." https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting — Aurora, Jan 10 '12 at 23:04

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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As indicated here in the documentation, the search API is an index of recent tweets, between 6-9 days old. It looks like the other tweets from the user you linked to are just outside this window.

So to summarize - you are not doing anything wrong. This is simply a limitation of the Twitter API.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Jan 10 '12 at 22:59

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And next item: `You cannot use the Search API to find Tweets older than about a week.` – 4ndrew Jan 10 '12 at 23:01

why do i only see one tweet in the search from API Query?

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